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GALLERY ONE | ADAM ANDERSON, JACINTA GILES, ANNELIZE MULDER, VICTORIA WAREHAM

ACTS OF TRANSLATION

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SAT 22 APRIL 4.00PM - FRI 19 MAY 5.00PM

OPENING EVENT SAT 22 APRIL, 4.00-6.00PM

FREE TO ATTEND

• GALLERY OPENING HOURS

  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

• ACCESSIBILITY

  *PLEASE NOTE: Planned V/Line service changes will affect trains between Melbourne and Geelong from 11 April - 3 May. More information

  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.

This exhibition takes a position against the idea of translation as derivative. Instead, it proposes that the act of translation serves not the original but the liberation and release of its potential.

Translation changes the original beyond its initial state, revealing or producing the translatability that is its ‘essence.’ Translation becomes an entanglement that has no beginning or end, but is something that is always tentative, approximate, and incomplete; an unfulfilled promise, necessarily trailing in its wake the remainder of its past. Through dismantling habits of perception and challenging the traditional boundaries of their chosen mediums and subjects, the artists in this exhibition provide opportunities for viewers to engage in acts of translation—to know our world through a materialist experience of colour, light, texture, and sensation.

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• ABOUT THE ARTISTS

  Adam Anderson’s practice is centred on his own body. His PhD examined understandings of identity through the influences of fetish and costume in performance art. Adam’s work incorporates performance, wearable objects including jewellery, makeup, costume, and photography.

  Adam’s investigation of fetish and identity is informed by his North African Jewish heritage as well as his experiences as a queer migrant living in regional Queensland.

  Jacinta Giles is an artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia. She works within the tradition of photography and collage, both as a formal principle and conceptual device, to reflect on how images mediate our contemporary experience.

  Giles holds a PhD and Masters in Visual Art from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her doctoral research investigated ways to account for contemporary photographic practices that reside in the continuum between the representational and abstract.

  The experience of migration is deeply entwined in Annelize Mulder’s practice, and she uses sculpture, installation, and multimedia to contextualise the significant bearing migration has on the lives of those who move countries. With the emotionally charged experiences of migration in mind, she seeks to make sense of memory’s potent pull that operates as attenuated connections which oscillate between clarity and obscurity. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in 2016 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 2022, both at the Queensland College of Art in Queensland.

  Based in Brisbane, Australia, Victoria Wareham has exhibited video installations in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. Working with the moving image in physical space, Victoria’s practice addresses theoretical concerns relating to the ontological stability of the screen as defined by its relationship to the viewer and the digital image.

  Victoria has completed residencies at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Canada; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; and The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle. She is currently undertaking PhD research candidature at the Queensland College of Art.

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