Sylvie Blocher
17 Feb - 26 Apr 2010
© Sylvie Blocher
Living Pictures / What belongs to them (still) 2007
single-channel video installation 36 minutes
Living Pictures / What belongs to them (still) 2007
single-channel video installation 36 minutes
SYLVIE BLOCHER
“What Is Missing?”
17 February - 26 April 2010
French video artist Sylvie Blocher creates portrait studies of individuals or groups within society. Through these works, or ‘Living Pictures’, she explores communal issues as well as personal themes, asking questions to which her subjects respond with often surprising candor. Presented across single or multiple screens, these artworks envelop you as they address the complexities of modern urban life.
The exhibition Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? represents a survey of the artist’s video installations from 2003 to the present, and takes its title from a new work with residents of Penrith in Sydney’s west. Engaging and frequently provocative, exhibited works explore a range of themes from cultural identity and migration to issues of authority, masculinity and self-expression.
Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? is presented concurrently at Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, featuring work by Campement Urbain, a visionary Paris-based collective headed by Blocher and architect/urban planner Franзois Daune, for the city of Penrith, and the Penrith Panthers.
“What Is Missing?”
17 February - 26 April 2010
French video artist Sylvie Blocher creates portrait studies of individuals or groups within society. Through these works, or ‘Living Pictures’, she explores communal issues as well as personal themes, asking questions to which her subjects respond with often surprising candor. Presented across single or multiple screens, these artworks envelop you as they address the complexities of modern urban life.
The exhibition Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? represents a survey of the artist’s video installations from 2003 to the present, and takes its title from a new work with residents of Penrith in Sydney’s west. Engaging and frequently provocative, exhibited works explore a range of themes from cultural identity and migration to issues of authority, masculinity and self-expression.
Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? is presented concurrently at Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, featuring work by Campement Urbain, a visionary Paris-based collective headed by Blocher and architect/urban planner Franзois Daune, for the city of Penrith, and the Penrith Panthers.