MELBOURNE NOW: HISTORY-MAKING EXHIBITION RETURNS IN 2023
The second edition of the ground-breaking exhibition Melbourne Now will be presented at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from March 2023. Bold in scope and scale, the exhibition highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms whose practices are shaping the cultural landscape of Melbourne and Victoria. I am thrilled my recent works were selected in the Melbourne Now 2023
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‘The Memory Palace: Cyrus Tang’ is a major exhibition at Town Hall Gallery featuring highlights from Cyrus Tang’s multidisciplinary art practice.
Over the past 20 years Tang has examined sentiments of nostalgia within memory and fantasy, fascinated by the paradox of reconstructing ephemeral mental images and sensations in permanent materials. She has explored ruins and decay of houses and cities, and of human bodies, while referencing current environmental and man-made catastrophes.
Working fluidly across sculpture, photography, video and installation, the artist has a distinctive style that embraces the materiality of her media. While her photographs and video works are presented in post-production digital format, the visual effects Tang employs are analogue, often the result of labour-intensive procedures in the studio or the field. Tang’s work documents her chosen media going through a transformation, a convergence of past and present. The result is hauntingly beautiful works that often memorialise collective experiences.
This exhibition provides a range of thought-provoking contexts which offer opportunities to explore the concept of memory, culture, and the immigrant experience.
Exhibition : Town Hall Gallery , Hawthorn
Date : 26/7/2023-14/10/2023