GALLERY ONE | ANNA SCHWANN & ILONA SAVCENKO
ENTROPICAL: PROSTHETIC PARK
SAT 18 MAR 4.00PM - TUES 11 APR 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 18 MAR, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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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
*Please note, Platform Arts will be closed for Easter Holidays from 7-10 April.
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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.
A fledgling alternate reality.
Probing the utopic vision of fabricating a new landscape of possibilities to live within, proposing a new nature and a kit of parts to build it with. Sounds like a bio-hybrid IKEA. Observing physical dimensions, somaesthetics, light studies, and political concerns of de/colonisation and environmental collapse, this work draws on the zeitgeist to consider the act of occupying space. Arrange, rearrange, arrange. The documented still life image suggests a way to build, it is a hesitant formation and open to change.
How should we move forward in this alien future? A relatable creature, the water strider fans its limbs to avoid sinking, holding the surface tension of the water to keep itself afloat. Sitting in the discomfort of the unknown, the water strider is our model for movement in this space.
This place will self-destruct like all good utopias do. A soft system collapse deliberately planned to allow space for the next uprising, like a TV series that stops at only one season. Supported by queer theory of what it means to embrace failure, WE kiss the limits.
For sales and enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
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Anna Schwann works in an expanded sculptural practice that investigates the encounter between art and audience. Through playful resistance and embracing failure she facilitates a conversation using sensory engaging tactics as means of connection. Taking a D.I.Y approach to technique, Schwann utilises provisional, accessible materials for making and uses everyday objects in her narrative.
Schwann’s work has been exhibited locally and interstate in artist-run spaces, milk bars, subways and toilets. Alongside her own practice she has worked on live and participatory events most recently with Long Prawn and Punctum INC, worked in theatre producing set design and costumes for shows in Melbourne Fringe Festival, Geelong Arts Centre and La Mama Theatre. In 2021 Schwann completed a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT, was recipient of the Evan Lowenstein Award and recently completed the Situate Residency Program 2022.
Anna lives and works in Naarm and on Jaara land with grateful respect to First Nations peoples as the traditional and rightful caretakers of these lands and waterways.
Ilona Savcenko lives and practices photography on the land of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. Alongside her personal practice, Ilona also produces commercial work and works as a digital technician. Ilona has worked in the industry for over a decade.
In the past three years her work has been driven by an exploration of still-life. She often uses mood-lighting to turn objects into sculptural figures. She employs the light to create a certain mood, a feeling. In her photographs the spectator is invited to enter the sombre room and spend time observing as the shapes, density, texture, and objects reveal themselves. Perhaps what stays in the shadows is as important as what is disclosed.
