Concrete:
a solid state, a construction material, something known or true.
Igor
Grubić, Monument
2014, video still
Concrete
brings together the work of sixteen artists, both Australian and
international. The exhibition explores the concrete, or the solid and
its counter: change, the flow of time. As we prepare to mark the
centenary of the First World War, the exhibition considers the impact
of time upon built and monumental form, reading between materiality
and emotion, form and memory.
Monuments
reflect a desire for commemoration, truth, honour and justice.
Equally, they may function to consolidate political power and
national identity. Works in the exhibition locate the monumental in
relation to longer cycles of construction, displacement and erasure;
archaeology, geology and paleontology; the shifting politics of
memory and ways to describe a history of place.
Curator:
Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow
Artists:
Laurence Aberhart (NZ), Jananne al-Ani (IRQ/UK), Kader Attia
(DEU/DZA), Saskia Doherty (AUS), Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni
(FRA), Igor Grubic (SRB), Carlos Irijalba (ESP), Nicholas Mangan
(AUS), Rä di Martino (ITY), Ricky Maynard (AUS), Callum Morton
(AUS), Tom Nicholson (AUS), Jamie North (AUS), Justin Trendall (AUS)
and James Tylor (AUS).
MUMA,
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
3
May - 5 July 2014
