GALLERY 1

Many shades of Black

Eunhye Hwang, Salvatore Panatteri, Declan Rooney, Koji Ryui and Huseyin Sami

Many shades of black correlates multiple practices operating within the realms of altering perceptions, social interaction, and most importantly, space and time. These elements are considered and handled as physical, tangible materials, dealt with in unique and specific manners within the parameters of each artist’s respective process of making work. Many shades of black can be interpreted as putting forward individual perceptions of material existence, questioning the way individuals interact with images and objects. Collectively the works of each artist will reveal readings of social, spatial and time related issues, which involve the specificity of architectural space and the challenge of presentation.

photo: Eun-hye Hwang 2008



This project was sponsored by the Janet Holmes a Court Artists' Grant Scheme, supported through a donation by Mrs Janet Holmes a Court, financial assistance from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and administered through NAVA, the National Association for the Visual Arts.

There is a room.
The room is rectangular in plan.
The room is 4470mm by 3765mm and its ceiling exactly 2960mm from its floor.
The room’s walls are white, gyprock over 12mm MDF and aluminium stud frame.
Floor concrete slab.
Ceiling- same.
The room’s total compressible volume exceeds 47m3 at Standard Earth Pressure.
The room has no door.
The room exhibits the properties of a socio/cultural singularity.
The laws that govern phenomena within the room are currently unfixed and unknown at Standard Earth Pressure.
Laws that govern phenomena within the room do exist.

image: speech bubble tank XV Benedict Ernst.