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HOPE IN THE DARK
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Hope in the Dark

Artists | Kiron Robinson, Simon Zoric, Tina Havelock Stevens, Rose Nolan, Amrita Hepi and Darren Sylvester.

In response to a rapidly changing world  - Gertrude presents Hope in the Dark, a street-facing exhibition in the windows at Gertrude Contemporary and the window vitrine at Gertrude Glasshouse. This project will evolve over the coming days and weeks (or as long as possible) while our regular programming is on hold.

Exploring ideas of confusion, resignation and anxiety offset with humour, hope and resilience, these gestures offer an opportunity for a bit of aesthetic and comic relief while we collectively #stayhome.

 

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To read notes on each work please go to our Missing Links page.

 

The next work we’ve added to this evolving exhibition Hope in the Dark is by Gertrude Studio Artist Alumni Kiron Robinson, Don’t forget me, 2008.

We’ve just added Dance Rites, 2017, by incoming Gertrude Studio Artist Amrita Hepi. In the work, a lone figure dances in a theatre absent of viewers, eerily reflecting the current state of closure of theatres and performance spaces across the nation.

 

Darren Sylvester’s 2018 photographic work, ominously titled The End, was originally produced in reference to the end titles for films created by Universal Pictures. What would have then been a symbol of US efforts toward global cultural distribution now holds as a gloomy signifier of a pandemic’s expansion across the world.

 

What does it all mean? As humans, it's only natural that we search to find meaning in large events that disrupt the norm of our society. What will the new world order look like post-pandemic? We've added Rose Nolan's, It's Hard to See What This All Means, 2019. Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery

 

... and Tina Havelock Steven's, Ghost Class, 2015.

 

 

Everything IS a bit fucked, 2016 is now exhibited at Gertrude Glasshouse. 

 

The residue of an exhibition closed before its time, Tounge, 2019 by Lewis Fidock and Gertrude Studio Alumni Joshua Petherick took on an altogether different resonance as the works of Hope in the Dark were installed around it. Pointed directly downward, the undulating slide not only mimicked a global economy in free fall but served as a reminder of the public playgrounds closed the country over, as children (and parents alike) experience the longest school holidays imaginable.