Film Grammar
Tommaso Nervegna-Reed, Emma Nixon
30 May–31 Jul 2018
The navigation of cinematic tropes in the work of Tommaso Nervegna-Reed draws from the histories of video art and film, and repudiates conventional narrative structures.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Tommaso Nervegna-Reed is a multidisciplinary artist, conscious of the gaps between seeing and understanding. With an ongoing interest in architecture and film, he creates propositional works that include video, sculpture, installation and works on paper. His work addresses a number of themes, including perception and the anti-climactic, and through erasure and deconstruction he obscures conventional narrative to create new meaning within artworks. Tommaso Nervegna-Reed is undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Monash University, Melbourne. Recent exhibitions include Loopholes, Intermission Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne, 2017 and Everything that is outside of us, Prato, Italy, 2017.
Emma Nixon is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Art History and Curating at Monash University, Melbourne. She has just completed a collaborative writing component at Bus Projects in conjunction with the show ‘Being As Becoming’ curated by Freek Loome and Channon Goodwin. Nixon works as a volunteer at Daine Singer Gallery and is the Gallery Assistant at the MADA Gallery, Monash University. She recently curated her first show Text and Abstraction at Intermission Gallery, Melbourne.
Bridie Lunney Bridie Lunney develops her works in relation to the site of presentation, engaging the given context, physical conditions, and poetics. Combining practices of architectural interventions, sculpture, and durational performance, Lunney acknowledges the body as a conduit between our psychological selves and the physical world. She has exhibited extensively including at the TarraWarra Biennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Artspace and Performance Space. She has been an artist in residence and exhibited in Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.She is currently a Lecturer in Sculpture at the National Art School, Sydney, and an Advisor to Blindside gallery, Melbourne.
PLAY² is a BLINDSIDE Satellite Project and can be viewed on the public screen at Federation Square, Melbourne; Bunjil Place, Narre Warren; Harmony Square, Dandenong; Liverpool, Sydney; Fairfield, Sydney.