Double Take / Time Frame: John Di Stefano And Ann Shelton

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Double Take / Time Frame: John Di Stefano and Ann Shelton


In this rare collaborative exhibition at RMIT University’s Project Space / Spare

Room Gallery, works by two of New Zealand’s most significant photographic-based

practitioners contend with closely related aspects of temporality, remembrance and

monumentality. 


In Double Take / Time Frame, both artists use still and video cameras to record,

with great subtlety, the residual and sometimes startling traces of historically and

dramatically charged events and locations.


In the three works from her Public Place series, Ann Shelton reveals the underlying

tension of pastoral scenes that hide a sinister and tragic past. Sites for exploration

are the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum; Daytona Beach, the site where infamous US serial

killer Aileen Wuornos deposited her first victim; and the tranquil bush scene in

Christchurch where teenagers Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker gained notoriety by

murdering Parker’s mother.


In the looped and digitally reconfigured video projection Ashes [Amsterdam], John

Di Stefano records his visit to Amsterdam. Positioned before the canalside

Homomonument (the International Gay and Lesbian Monument consisting of three

triangular elements constructed of pink granite, with inscriptions including “For

friendship, such an immeasurable longing”), Di Stefano documents two visitors’

own solemn encounter as they ritualistically spread ashes.




What: Double Take / Time Frame

When: Friday, 30 July, to Thursday, 19 August

Opening: Thursday, 29 July, 5pm-7pm

Floor Talk: Friday, 30 July, 1pm-1.30pm

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm

Where: Project Space / Spare Room Gallery, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton


For media enquiries: Stephen Gallagher, (03) 9925 4298 or

stephen.gallagher@rmit.edu.au.

19 July, 2010






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