24.02.2021—20.03.2021
Gallery 1
Curated by Hee Joon Youn
Opening night: Wednesday 24 February, 6pm – 8pm
To obsess is to return, time after time, to a thought, object, practice. Obsession’s fierce and unapologetic project is to fix in time, to rage against the constant flux of matter and hold a space of consistency for as long as desire allows. In ‘These are a few of my favourite things’ Madeleine Minack, Kaijern Koo, Hee Joon Youn, Skye Malu Baker and Nina Rose Prendergast take obsession as a central thematic, formal and material concern. After a year ruled by wild unpredictability and temporal strangeness, what is it we seek to grip on to?
Image: Nina Rose Prendergast
In line with COVID-19 state government advice, gallery visitors are asked to maintain social distancing, wear a mask and sign in via a QR code. The gallery can admit up to 40 people.