- Amir Yatziv
- John Smith
- Baden Pailthorpe
- Ahmet Ogut
- Richard Mosse
- Hiwa K
- Franco Mattes
- Eva Mattes
- Iman Issa
- Laurent Grasso
- Cyprien Gaillard
As part of the 2020 Perth Festival Visual arts program, Moana Project Space presents Theatres, an exhibition about sites of violent geopolitical unrest in the world today. It features twelve recent video works by acclaimed international practitioners. Theatres is curated across two venues, Hackett Hall at the Western Australian Museum and Moana Project Space, in the Perth CBD.
In Hackett Hall, seven works of cinematic scale focus on conflicted landscapes. The works implicate the troubling position of the viewer, some through disturbing beauty, some with ambivalence, and others are more directly confrontational.
The relationships between the medium of video, the language of cinema, twenty-first century warfare and theatrical spectacle are placed under the spotlight as the landscape of parts of the Middle East, the US, St.Petersburg, Serbia and Ukraine bear the traces of conflict as silent and impersonal witness.
Meanwhile at Moana, artworks explore the diverse and increasingly complicated way modern conflict is technologically mediated.
Curated by Dale Buckley, Laetitia Wilson and Guy Louden.
Image credit:
Richard Mosse, Pool at Uday's Palace, Salah-a-Din–central Iraq 2020
