sydney biennale – cockatoo island

Alexis Teplin: Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation)

Cockatoo Island, Sydney Biennale, 2016. Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “London-based American artist Alexis Teplin’s practice explores the experience of movement and sound in painting. Known for her brightly coloured abstract paintings, these canvases often extend to form the backdrop, shape and even costume for Teplin’s sculptures and performance works. Teplin also draws on a wide range of other art historical, literary and old Hollywood film references in the creation of her performative installations, which ultimately explore the interactions between sensuality,Read more

Chiharu Shiota: Conscious Sleep

Cockatoo Island, Sydney Biennale, 2016.   Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has lived and worked in Berlin for 20 years, and is known for intricate works that explore the complex relationship between the body and the mind. Mapping elusive sensations of emotion and memory, many of Shiota’s site-specific, large-scale installations incorporate everyday objects, such as clothing, musical instruments, furniture, letters, even an incinerated piano, weaving them into tangled webs comprising hundreds of metres of black thread. AtmosphericRead more

Lee Bul: Willing to be Vulnerable

Cockatoo Island, Sydney Biennale, 2016.   Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “Korean artist Lee Bul’s multifaceted artistic practice spans more than 20 years, encompassing drawing, performance, sculpture, installation and video. She is recognised for her technically precise, futuristic sculptures and architecturally influenced, large-scale, immersive installations. Lee Bul’s works deal with visionary narratives, and themes such as the legacy of modernism, the potential of technology, gender and sexuality, the limits of the human body and its interface with the mechanistic, the roleRead more