“Range of Motion”
Penny Cain, Madeleine Donovan and Emma White
22 June → 14 July 2007

Range of Motion is an exhibition exploring three artists' use of ritualised behaviour, repetitive actions and the habitual and everyday as signifiers in their work. With a light touch and an anthropological bent, this exhibition engages with notions of productivity and uselessness, ritual and performance, absurdity and the hyper-rational, compulsiveness and obsessiveness.

Each artist takes a different slant; Penelope Cain combines video stills and drawings of business people in her operational theories of an uber-productive output-driven society. Emma White’s installation of fimo objects and photographs reproduces the tools and vocabulary that signify productive labour, obsessively documenting the minutiae of a working space. Madeleine Donovan’s video and photographs explore the elaborate rituals that are constructed to enable physical contact between people in a society obsessed with contained personal space.

Penelope Cain, Madeleine Donovan and Emma White are Sydney based artists who share a strong interest in photomedia, time spent in Canberra and obsessive observations of people and things around them.