MAV Kaleidescope 8 December 2023 - ongoing
Statement from the MAV website: "MAV is proud to curate a large-scale public art installation for the Metro Tunnel Creative Program. Presented on the construction site hoarding at Anzac Station, MAV: Kaleidoscope illuminates the stories, contexts, styles, techniques, and multi-genres of Jenny Zhe Chang, Elif Sezen, Priyanka Jain, Stacey Edwards and TextaQueen. MAV: Kaleidoscope reflects the depth and range of culturally diverse artists, illuminating their stories, contexts, styles, and techniques across genres. This curation contemplates Light as an idea, framing it with existentialist humour.
MAV: Kaleidoscope reflects the depth and range of culturally diverse artists, illuminating their stories, contexts, styles, and techniques across genres. This curation contemplates Light as an idea, framing it with existentialist humour.
The centre piece, Shama (The Flame), by TextaQueen is from their series Bollywouldn’t. A candle glows in Shama’s belly, tempting moths towards her in contemplation of birth, re-birth, and anticipation of moth-erhood.
Priyanka Jain’s The Forest on my Flesh - I responds to the interaction of digging in, exposing microbes of the deep, reminding us that everything is inextricably connected and yet unconnected.
Twilight Black Cockatoos by Stacey Edwards represents leaving her past behind and, like a bird, flying to new places and experiences.
Jenny Zhe Chang’s Light with Hope Harmonious, photographed by Ruben Fino, symbolises sharing and offering solace for those in pursuit of a better life.
Elif Sezen experiments with the concept of light on landscapes, encouraging healing and integration in Presence #1.
Viewers are invited to move beyond the threshold of constructed social systems and expand into the joy of nature and the cosmos."
https://www.mav.org.au/projects/mav-kaleidescope
Elif Sezen's profile page and details of her work Presence #1 on MAV website: https://www.mav.org.au/artwork...