Dying in Spite of the Miraculous
200 GERTRUDE ST FITZROY, 2010This exhibition combines “the intrigue of real life events and myths born from trauma with ritual and magic, presenting a restless fusion of the celestial and the real.” - The curators
With the curators we designed the ground floor gallery spaces to create a labyrinth intertwining spaces and works. Angled walls create preambulation and enclose the von Brandenburg, Olde Wolbers and Jan Ader works in spaces of their own, with the rest commingling in the generous circulation space.
A discrete door in the Jan Ader room leads to the viewing space of the O’Callaghan work where the viewer becomes the viewed, separated from others by a dwarf wall. The Blake and Koester works are positioned to create focus on the work while catching peripheral glimpses of the next en-route.
Open between the 8th October and 6th November, DiSotM was part of the 2010 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER SNEE