29 February 2008 – 22 March 2008, opening Thursday 28 February 6 - 8pm
Artist Talk Thursday 20 March, 12.30 - 1.30pm
Working independently, two artists present a single body of work inviting a rethink
on how our identities are formed and how we form our identities.
One artist reframes and recreates the childhood portrait with the grown adult
present; juxtaposing two moments separated by three decades of experience.
The second seeks to locate the private in the public and the real in the ideal.
Reframing advertising imagery and removing commercial signifiers, appropriated
portraits are repositioned as moments of intimacy and the personal.
Presented together these photographs confuse and question our definitions of
private and public, memory and fabrication, self and other.
Vivian Cooper Smith is New Zealand born, and spent his childhood in Bangladesh,
India and Perth. His is now a Melbourne based photographer and graphic designer.
David Van Royen is a Dutch born, Perth raised photographer who has for the last
five years been exhibiting widely both nationally and internationally. He is based in
Melbourne.
