Program–

Range of Motion

Penny Cain, Madeleine Donovan & Emma White

22 Jun 2007 - 14 Jul 2007 · West Space · Gallery 2
Opening: Thursday 21 June 2007, 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Thursday 12 July 2007, 12.30-1.30pm

Range of Motion is an exhibition exploring three artists' use of ritualised behaviour, repetitive actions and the habitual and everyday as signifiers in their work. With a light touch and an anthropological bent, this exhibition engages with notions of productivity and uselessness, ritual and performance, absurdity and the hyper-rational, compulsiveness and obsessiveness.

Each artist takes a different slant; Penelope Cain combines video stills and drawings of business people in her operational theories of an uber-productive output-driven society. Emma White’s installation of fimo objects and photographs reproduces the tools and vocabulary that signify productive labour, obsessively documenting the minutiae of a working space. Madeleine Donovan’s video and photographs explore the elaborate rituals that are constructed to enable physical contact between people in a society obsessed with contained personal space.

Penelope Cain, Madeleine Donovan and Emma White are Sydney based artists who share a strong interest in photomedia, time spent in Canberra and obsessive observations of people and things around them.

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