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Special Sunday Opening and Gallery Talk
3:30pm, 21st October
ORON CATTS INTRODUCES THE WORK OF
TOVE KJELLMARK: ANOTHER NATURE
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detail: Tove Kjellmark, Self Portrait with Pig, 2013/2018, c-type print, acrylic, aluminium, 146 x 107.2cm Ed 2/3, Image courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY
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MOORE CONTEMPORARY is pleased to participate in the Unhallowed Arts events in association with the SYMBIOTICA initiated and hosted conference Quite Frankly. Through a conference, exhibitions and performances, Unhallowed Arts explores the legacy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through a plurality of experiences.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 21st October between 3:00pm and 5:00pm MOORE CONTEMPORARY opens especially to host an Introductory Talk to the work of Tove Kjellmark by Oron Catts at 3:30pm. You are welcome to view the exhibition, enjoy light refreshments and hear from Oron.
Oron Catts is the Co-Founder and Director of SymbioticA: the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and was a Professor of Contestable Design at the Royal College for the Arts UK. Together with Dr Ionat Zurr, a researcher and lecturer at the School of Design UWA and SymbioticA’s academic co-ordinator, they formed the internationally renowned Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996. Both are Visiting Professor at Biofilia – Based for Biological Arts, Aalto University Finland (2015-2020).
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Tove Kjellmark, Katter, 2013/18 c-print, acrylic, aluminium, 54 x 64.5cm, Ed 2/4, image courtesy the artist
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Installation view Tove Kjellmark: Another Nature in MOORE CONTEMPORARY, image courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY
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Swedish artist, Tove Kjellmark presents work in Australia for the first time. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Kjellmark is known for a body of work that has been described as techno-animalism. Through video, photography and sculpture she explores the anthropocentric emphasis in technological and robotic advancement. Her visual expression is simultaneously elegant, amusing, unsettling and charged, invoking a surprising pathos, in spite of a mechanical austerity.
Tove Kjellmark’s work searches for another nature. A Nature that refuses to accept a difference between technological and natural forces, that refuses to accept a given difference between human life and animal life, between mechanics and organics. By questioning precisely these issues, Kjellmark attempts to challenge Nature, creating it anew; not out of critique but through artistic experimentation.
This select presentation of work by Tove Kjellmark shows five photographic works and screens a video that the artist considers as core to her ongoing practice.
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Tove Kjellmark, Naked 2009, video still, image courtesy of the artist
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Exhibition Dates:
Wednesday 17th October - Saturday 10th November, 2018
Exhibition Hours:
Wednesday - Friday 11:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 12noon - 4:00pm
*Special Opening For Talk and Drinks: Sunday 21st October 3:00 - 5:00pm
Further Information on Unhallowed Arts visit https://unhallowedarts.org/
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