Start with the feeling of walking into the gallery and being hit by something huge, an interior landscape, a petrochemical wonderland. The huge twining mass of intricately draped and interlinked polystyrene is soft, almost glowing under the gallery lights.
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Video from the RAISE YOUR VOICE Summit, Australia 2009.
Auckland artist Jae Hoon Lee creates composite images: stitched-together landscapes, strangely flayed portraits and kaleidoscopic nature studies. His digital prints are seamless, but oddly disjointed. Lee is an analytical cubist with Photoshop skills.
As well as furnishing us with family portraits and a billion framed sunsets, the camera has offered new horizons and new tyrannies. Our bodies and imaginations are squeezed through the shutter, dreaming in Technicolor and diarising in wobbly Handy-cam.
The installation works that Stella Brennan has created over the last decade have incorporated a wide range of sculptural pieces, illuminations, video projections, and soundscapes.
Video interview by FACT TV for the Liverpool Biennale, 2006.
By Tessa Laird
Stella Brennan mediates binaries, fashioning oxymoronic couplets to explain both her curatorial and artistic practice.
Audio of a paper presented at the 2005 Transacoustic Festival, Auckland.
Essay by Paul Andrew Wood, Urbis 26, Summer 2004/5
Essay by Paul Andrew Wood, the Physics Room Annual, 2004.
Fleury ambiguously appropriates the stuff of the fashionable lifestyle – paintings, carpets, shoes, hemlines; incorporating her passion for muscle cars and the space programme in installation, sound work, and video.