'Divergent' is an encounter with imaginative and conceptual possibilities.
Curated by Claire Bridge, 'Divergent' brings together artists exploring alternative realities and unique ways of perceiving. The shared environmental and societal challenges of our current age require a capacity to leap out and split away from the mainstream in order to explore news ways of imagining.
Sue Beyer deviates into an escapist fantasy world, moving beyond the digital glitch. Matt Greenwood’s lenticular image bends and distorts desires, invoking sensual responses to fleshy forms. In her sculptural ceramic bombshells that morph gendered mythologies with the horrors of war and the global environmental climate crisis, Claire Bridge explores the origins of bikini bombshell and the collapsing of female sexuality with destruction and gendered violence. Anna Kennedy dissolves relationships with time and space with her Infinity Loop, while Yuying Pang takes a performative approach to investigating her personal relationship with society, through evoking situational and contextual awareness.
Vitrines at
Assembly Point: Guild
(the Vitrines are glass display cases in the outside walkway and can be viewed 24/7)
152 Sturt Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Artists:
Sue Beyer
Claire Bridge
Matt Greenwood
Anna Kennedy
Yuying Pang