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What’s Eating You?
South Australian artist Andrea Przygonski considers the world of the petri dish
through her hanging installations in this stunning exhibition at RMIT University’s
Project Space/Spare Room Gallery.
Diseases and pathogens tear through society; today’s swine flu is yesterday’s bird
flu. Moulds, viruses, bacteria and a thousand other things imperceptible to the eye
are hyper-realised in our daily routines. We wash our hands regularly. We brush our
teeth in the morning and at night.
“I have reflected upon organisms within the
microcosm that we know about yet find
distasteful, repulsive or even scary,” Ms
Przygonski said.
“These become metaphors for the things we
don’t like to talk about or don’t want to
confront in our own lives, metaphors for our
reluctance to accept anything other than what
we know and can see.”
Image: Andrea Przygonski, What’s Eating You? (detail), 2009
Etching on lycra, screenprinted acrylic, Dimensions variable
Photographer Michal Kluvanek
What: What's Eating You?
When: Friday, 23 October, to Friday, 13 November
Opening night: Thursday, 22 October, 5-7pm
Floor talk: Friday, 23 October, 12-1pm
Where: Project Space/Spare Room Gallery
RMIT Building 94, Ground level, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton
For interviews or comment: Curator/Coordinator, Stephen Gallagher, (03) 9925
4971 or stephen.gallagher.@rmit.edu.au
13 October, 2009
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