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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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