Edwards+Johann, I can't...you see, 2010. Photographic still.
Collection of the Artist, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Edwards+Johann, I can't...you see, 2010. Photographic still.
Collection of the Artist, Aotearoa New Zealand.
This exhibition is now closed
I can't ... you see, 2010 DVD video, parts 1 and 2
The collaborative work of Edwards+Johann encompasses a broad range of visual arts practices, challenging the boundaries of making and viewing contemporary art. This moving image diptych references the process of creating a portrait and the practice of painting. Edwards+Johann's performative role-playing explores the history of European portrait painting and its Pacific translations, figure-ground relationships and an investigation of the self. Their peculiar costumes and the interchangeable nature of their characters reveal some essence of being – both other and ourselves, or maybe ourselves discovered through the other.
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Date:
1 September – 30 September 2010 -
Curator:
Felicity Milburn -
Exhibition number:
851
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