“The Nothing”
Damiano Bertoli, Sanné Mestrom, Deborah Ostrow, Daniel Price, Matthew Shannon, Jackson Slattery and Lou Hubbard
16 Apr → 8 May 2010
The Nothing explored realms of the unknown and potentially unknowable aspects of human understanding – the things that we can’t fully comprehend or for which words and recognisable forms simply do not exist.
The exhibition’s title, The Nothing, is taken from the childhood fable The Neverending Story, wherein an indescribable ‘emptiness’ pervades Fantascia (the mythical land in which the story takes place), chronicling the ‘gap’ between islands of human knowledge and understanding.
The Nothing addressed liminal spaces, transposing and transforming materials from the familiar to the foreign in order to explore themes of uncertainty and crisis.
Damiano Bertoli
Sanné Mestrom is an Australian experimental and conceptual artist who works mainly in the mediums of installation and sculpture. Mestrom has a research-based practice and incorporates notions of play into social aspects of urban design.
Deborah Ostrow is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Daniel Price
Matthew Shannon is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Jackson Slattery is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Lou Hubbard sculptures and videos examine the dynamics of training, submission and the aesthetics of sentimentality. She subjects basic materials of domestic and institutional utility to acts of duress, measure and fitness - operations that pertain to the disciplinary spaces where subjectivity and knowledge are formed.