Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art
22 June- 5 August
Generation Y Girl (2004) by Donna Bailey
The Ateneo Art Gallery (AAG) and the La Trobe University Museum of Art (LUMA) present Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art, to be launched on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University. As part of the AAG’s ArtSpeak program, exhibition curator and LUMA Artistic Director Dr. Vincent Alessi will be giving a lecture at 5pm, followed by the opening at 6pm.
The exhibition showcases works by Australian artists who are engaged, as the title suggests, with the notions of identity and landscape in contemporary Australia. It will focus on notions of Australianness, youth culture, migrant identities, aboriginal identity and landscape as place. The exhibition will include the works of prominent Australian artists such as Donna Bailey (photographs), Scott Redford (video), Michel Riley (photographs) Sean Gladwell (video) and David Rosetzky (video) amongst others. Presenting multiple works by each artist with a focus on new media the exhibition will give a Filipino audience an insight into the current practices and trends in Australian photography, video and installation.
Me Here Now: Identity and Place in Contemporary Australian Art is mounted in line with the partnership between the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology of La Trobe University and the Philippines Australia Studies Network of the Ateneo de Manila University. The exhibition will run until 5 August 2011. For more information, call +63 2 4266488 or visit our website http://ateneoartgallery.org/.