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Past exhibition

Cinderella II - The Dreamer

Gosia Wlodarczak

Curator
Olga Sankey

Guest Scholar
Dr Ian McLean

Exhibition Launch
6pm Wednesday 21 May

Exhibition Open
Tuesday 20 May - Friday 27 June

Exhibition Invite (PDF file 150kb, download Adobe Acrobat)
 

 Artwork by Gosia Wlodarczak

Desire 2: Phantom, detail (3 of 506 panels) Pigment marker, acrylic on wallpaper on cardboard
image © the artist 

 
'Cinderella II - The Dreamer' is a hybrid of drawing with interaction and performance, installation, video and sound. It represents a further investigation of issues addressed in the installations: Living Edge (2006) and Skin of The Wall (2006). The work explores perceptions of the home and domestic space as a site of dreaming and habitation, where the imaginary and the real co-exist and how one informs the other. During course of the creation process, I was inviting friends and colleagues to collaborate in the project by sharing their desires with me. The goal was to 'materialize' these dreams by converting them into installation objects.

The DRAWING INSTALLATION consists of 5 multi-panel objects comprising of overall 890 small to medium size panels (cardboard panels, mounted with wallpaper, and drawn on top with pigment markers).

These drawn panels make up a bit larger than life, stylised profiles of objects 'of desire' based on real items:

            Phantom - a new model of Rolls Royce
            Beo (triptych) - Bang & Olufsen sound system:a console + two speakers
            Yohji - an outfit by a designer, Y.Yamamoto, Spring Collection 2007

SIMILITUDES ( sound-images) All objects within the installation incorporate sound components. While the line I draw is a visual translation of our ability to look and see, the sound is an aural translation of the same. Using musical notation I made an inventory of the visual appearance of original desire objects. Configurations of different notes positioned on multiple musical staffs, form codes archiving the appearance of the particular object. I worked with a composer, Alistair Noble of ANU School of Music, Canberra, who made 'translation' of my 'notes' inventory of visible' into digital sounds.

Gallery installation photos of Cinderella II - The Dreamer

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Desire 1: Yohji, 2007, 199 panels drawing installation, pigment marker, acrylic, wallpaper on board, 200x81cms Desire 1: Yohji (detail) Cinderella 11 - The Dreamer - installation photograph, SASA Gallery 2008

 

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