“Parallel”
Dominic Redfern, Sang Nyung Lee, Kate Fulton, Suk Hyern Han, Natasha Frisch, Sang Bin Kang, Simon Horsburgh and Jae Hwan Kim
25 Apr → 17 May 2003
Parallel is an international exchange project involving emerging visual artists from Australia and South Korea.
Parallel embraces notions of non-convergent similarity, offering an open-ended framework for the juxtaposition of existing methodology and conceptual concerns. The project acknowledges each participant’s pursuit of a career in the visual arts, as a qualifying point of engagement.
To this end, Parallel eschews a mode of cultural exchange that could be construed as hegemonic. Rather, its goal is to compress the space, both geographic and cultural, that separates artistic practice and to emphasise the output of such practice as the active conceptual element of the project.
A bi-lingual catalogue was published by Han Jeon Gallery for the project.
Dominic Redfern works at the intersection of site, screen and identity and in recent years his work with identity has increasingly focused on narratives of place. He exhibits widely in Australia and around the world in exhibitions ands screenings programs and he works as a senior lecturer at RMIT’s School of Art.
Sang Nyung Lee
Kate Fulton has exhibited across Naarm/Melbourne since 1996. She has a degree in Fine Art and a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art.
Suk Hyern Han
Natasha Frisch employs modest materials to construct models and installations that closely approximate everyday objects and sites. Inspired by crime mythologies, suburban folklore, and forgotten architecture, Natasha’s meticulous constructions aim to challenge our reading of the built environment, and interrogate the slippage between the real and the unreal.
Sang Bin Kang
Simon Horsburgh
Jae Hwan Kim