Curated by Samantha McCulloch and Frances Wilkinson for Next Wave
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Vic / National Storage Collingwood
1 April – 22 May 2016

“How is the value of art renegotiated by being relocated from its proverbial pedestal in the gallery, sidelined to a (shadowed) storage space?” – Frances Wilkinson, co-curator [1]

Curated by Samantha McCulloch and Frances Wilkinson as part of the Next Wave Emerging Curator’s Program, ‘shadow sites’ features new works by seven artists using various media to explore the relationship between artwork, archive and site. In an act of inversion, ‘shadow sites’ liberates the document from the darkness whilst relegating its subject, the original, to the corrugated confines of a nearby storage facility.

See full article at this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, here.
Published 1 June, 2016

[Image : Rudi Williams, Window, Bode Museum Berlin, 2016. Type C Print. 1200 x 1800mm. Image credit: Alan Weedon. Website : http://www.ccp.org.au]