Suburbia
Cement Fondu, Gadigal land/Sydney
Curated by Megan Monte + Josephine Skinner
15 March - 29 April 2018
Suburbia
Cement Fondu's inaugural group exhibition, Suburbia, including work by Daata Editions with Ed Fornieles, Rosie Deacon, Chris Dolman, Caroline Garcia, Tina Havelock Stephens, Biljana Janice, Amber Koroluk-Stephensen, Kenny Pittock, Thom Roberts and Daniel Kim, Studio A with Emily Crockford, Shahmen Suku, Sweatshop Western Sydney Literacy Movement, Tangentyere Artists: Nerine Tilmouth; Louise Daniels; and Elizabeth Namptitjinpa, Gary Trinh, Amalia Ulman, and Paul Yore.
Suburbia breaches the boundaries of the backyard by unpacking issues embedded deep in the heart of suburban existence – cultural identity, colonisation, social conformity, migration, Australiana, the body and the home. Artists engage a broad spectrum of art forms to tell their stories, including needle-point embroidery, live performance, painting, spoken word, ceramics, installation and digital media. The exhibition challenges audiences to think more expansively about suburbia as something that it is not simply place-based but experiential; ideological, shedding presumptions and prejudices about life in the ‘burbs.
This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.
Installation photographs by Document Photography