Ode to Marion
Incinerator Gallery
Melbourne, Australia
4 June – 28 July 2019
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Curated by Boe-Lin Bastian
Tracey Lamb, Noriko Nakamura, Yuria Okamura, Esther Stewart, Melanie Jayne Taylor and Meredith Turnbull
Ode to Marion pays homage to Marion Mahony Griffin’s often overlooked architectural and artistic legacy. The exhibition includes the works of female artists whose practices are informed by the fields of architecture and modernism, drawing on the archival history of Mahony Griffin’s oeuvre, her spirit as a pioneering woman and the design of the Incinerator building.
In the Spirit of Imagination: An Archive Activated
For this exhibition I have approached my own photographic archive with a ‘Marion Mahony lens’, retrieving imagery and creating categories reflective of my research trajectory into her life. I gravitated toward material that depicts the abundant presence of nature around built structures, architectural sites in construction, Australian landscapes, suburbs and flora.
By creating a highly subjective, intuitive rendering of what Marion’s photographic archive could be, synergies between our interests, philosophies and themes in our work began to emerge. ‘In the Spirit of Imagination: An Archive Activated’, explores the function of memory, our relationship to place, and how the landscapes of our upbringing travel with us, shaping and intermingling with our present, affecting our sensibility and the work we create and leave behind.