GALLERY ONE | EMMA WINKLER
A MERE PASSING THING
SAT 28 JAN 3.30PM - FRI 24 FEB 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 28 JAN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND, INCLUDES ARTIST TALK FROM 3.30PM
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
Drawing on fears and experiences growing up, at the core of this exhibition is the question of how to deal with death as the ultimate, inevitable unknown.
Through collage-based, multimedia paintings and hand-painted animations, A Mere Passing Thing explores death and its associated states of mind, such as rumination and denial. Medieval references like the Danse Macabre, Ars Moriendi, trickster and fool create a framework for interrogating these reactions.
The Danse Macabre is a medieval allegory, depicting the dead gathering a range of figures to dance to their graves, reminding viewers of their own mortality in a carnivalesque and even cathartic procession. The Ars Moriendi translates to ‘The Art of Dying,’ a text guiding readers on how to die 'well’ through religion and planning. Although they could be seen to represent opposing approaches, these works highlight the futility and absurdism of attempting to avoid or prepare for one's death. Through these references and the symbol of the spiral, the distress generated by death and failure is analysed. So, rather than shying away from death and increasing one's dread, this exhibition explores the way embracing and reframing death and failure as productive and restorative can be an antidote to anxiety.
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Emma is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice explores the unknown, death, failure and the absurd. She works with collage, painting and video, with many works transitioning back and forth across mediums. Collage is used as a starting point, created from a database of found imagery alongside cartoon figures and childhood photographs. The spiral is central to her work, reflecting a push and pull between play and structure, present visually and as a logic within the material process.
Through diverse imagery and the use of humour as an entry point, her work functions as an open investigation of the unknown.
Website: emmalynwinkler.cargo.site
This project is supported by the City of Greater Geelong through their Arts Project Grants under the City of Greater Geelong’s Community Investment and Support Fund.