Point of Origin

The exhibition Point of Origin will feature new and recent work by Canadian artists Kelly Wood, Jack Jeffrey, and Taras Polataiko; Berlin based artist Ceal Floyer; Dora Economou, from Athens; and Sydney artists and Sydney College of the Arts graduates Huseyin Sami, and Rolande Souliere. Point of Origin will be on display at Artspace from 12 September to 12 October 2008.

By conventional descriptions these artists are interdisciplinary and post-conceptual. Their art practices range across genre defying approaches to sculpture, photography, painting, text, video, and performance their work redefines art idioms in the wake of the legacies of aesthetic and anti-aesthetic traditions. In their individual practices and their points of connection, these artists pose questions regarding past, present, and future meanings of art, and its relation to life.

The exhibition takes as its frame of reference the notion that the present “post aesthetic” moment situates the pre-modern, modern, postmodern, and the present, as the foundation points of origin in the hybrid territory of contemporary art.

Point of Origin is curated by Gary Pearson, a Canadian artist, former artist in residence at SCA and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Image: Rolande Souliere, Young Binessiwags (detail), 2006. Photograph by Peter Endersbee.