“Like a Hasselblad on the moon”
Grace Wood
17 Feb → 25 Mar 2017

Mythologising events
Personal mythology
Bodies of people vs bodies of land
Knausgaard's book on the nature of angels
Truth that sounds like fiction
12 Hasselblads discarded and left on the moon
The equipment is gone and the image remains
We need to bring home the rocks
Lawrence Alma Tadema Paintings
People being suffocated by rose petals
Rose petals as pixels

Like a Hasselblad on the moon is a sculptural installation of large floating structures adorned with photographic collages, united in their collective flatness. The works block and ignore each other, with their backs turned. They also talk to each other and look at each other. The levels and places of their interactions depend on the people present.

They're discarded, pixelated portraits that live in Google images. They're fabricated, photoshopped histories that seek validation. They're large format photographs brought back from outer space. They are misplaced maps and topographies throwing off the GPS. They're banal snaps of reality from an iPhone screen. They're augmented paintings, presenting imagined histories. They are 35mm film scans whose owner has lost her memory. They're crushed, distorted, rearranged, replaced with stand ins.

With accompanying texts by Isabelle Sully and Julia Murphy.

Isabelle Sully works as an artist, curator and writer. She is currently living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Julia Murphy is a writer, editor and curator based in Melbourne. She has previously worked at Gertrude Contemporary and is currently a board member at Seventh Gallery.