ON SUNDAY, October 1, Swan Hill Regional Gallery will bring another unique exhibition to the community with the opening of Conflated.
The National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria touring exhibition features 11 artists including curators Zoë Bastin and David Cross.
“Conflated presents a range of inflatable materials, from balloons to digital audio and video informed by inflatable processes,” Ms Bastin said.
“Positioning the inflatable as the medium of our times, the exhibition prompts us to explore the inherent plasticity and transformative potential of that which can be blown up.
“The works conflate synthetic forms with human vulnerabilities, the abject, uncanny, eco-anxiety, colonised land and breath.”
The artists featured in Conflated investigate the possibilities of the inflatable through participatory works that entice audiences into finding new forms of COVID-safe intimacy, audio that draws parallels between ASMR breath and the ecological destruction of glaciers melting, and video of convulsing bodies that morph with inflatable objects.
Across all works, the idea of inflation and deflation is a provocation, offering new possibilities in and for our world.
The exhibition will remain on display until December 3.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
