Sing Into My Mouth
Group Exhibition
Curated by Julia Rosa Clark
05 - 23 May 2009
Curator WALK-ABOUT saturday 23 May 12h00 for 12h30
“Nothing is more frightening than not knowing where you’re going, but then nothing can be more satisfying than finding you’ve arrived somewhere without any clear idea of the route.”
- Tacita Dean from An Aside, 2005.
Sing Into My Mouth* takes as its curatorial lead one established by Tacita Dean in her exhibition, An Aside. Resisting establishing a clear thematic curatorial framework, Dean embarked on a period of non-linear meanderings, guided by idiosyncratic interests, chance, association and coincidence to a set of works that make up the final whole - a process not unlike that used in her own art production.
Like Dean, Julia Rosa Clark has followed a series of disparate clues and eccentric threads on her unknown route to the final proposition. The culmination is a group exhibition of selected artworks and a free printed booklet - the curator’s anecdotal writing about the works on view.
Sing Into My Mouth includes enquiries into the nature of intimacy, desire, influence, exchange, memory/ false memory, self, autobiography, interpretation, poetics, contingency, dormancy and resurrection.
The works take many forms such as loans from collections, gifts, replicas, proposals, residue and never-seens including selected works by Bridget Baker, Emma Coleman, Sue Clark, Tom Cullberg, Anja de Klerk, Barend de Wet, Peter Eastman, Teboho Edkins, Gus Ferguson, Gimberg & Nerf, Douglas Gimberg, Matthew Hindley, Pieter Hugo, Mandy Lee Jandrell, John Nankin, Sarah Nankin, Heath Nash, Cameron Platter, Andrew Putter, Gregg Smith, Doreen Southwood, James Webb, Ed Young.
*Lyrics from the Talking Head’s song This Must Be The Place/ Naïve Melody
Click here to download Julia Rosa Clark’s accompanying text from the exhibition
Click here to download a text from the exhibition by John Nankin
