Before The Bullfight
Hanako Müller, Casper Plum, Trinh Mia Dang, Cinoo Christina Lee, Inez Martorell.
Curated by Audrey Merton and Jack Snow-Veiner
25.10.24-5.11.24
Before The Bullfight is a group show celebrating the work of five artists, highlighting processes of making through experimental material forms and photographic outcomes.
Featuring artists:
Hanako Müller is a Naarm based artist whose work reflects on the ways in which we look to form identity, how memory influences experience and how the act of capturing and viewing photographs invites connection. Through
the use of mixed print and analogue processes, Hanako highlights the materiality of photography and invites viewers to engage with questions of place, time, and positionally.
hanakomuller.com
@han.a.ko
Casper Plum is a multidisciplinary artist who delves into moments of transition, the stages of longing and grief and the relationship between body and homes. He questions how space influences the way we hold memory, how space informs safety and stability. He traverses photographic C-type prints and sculptural elements to explore integral parts of himself and current personal experiences.
@making.plum
Trinh Mia Dang gathers mixed mediums and photographic practices to display socio-cultural themes whilst exploring her own heritage. Her fascination lies in experimental material based work through the nature of making and building.
@33nlight3n
Cinoo Christina Lee is currently completing her second year of photography at the VCA. Cinoo’s work presents an attempt to comprehend the turmoil and embarrassment produced by desire for things that are beautiful but inherently empty. She has also recently been interested in idiosyncratic belief systems, algorithmic echo chambers and luxury’s language.
@scarrboroughaffair
Inez Martorell practice combines photographic and sculptural mediums, exploring feelings of anxiety and nostalgia through recreations and interpretations of vintage imagery and iconography. Inez also aims to examine the potentials of cinematic world-building within photography and installation, often involving set-building and prop making.
@yyournotrealgirl
Before the Bullfight is curated by Jack Snow-Viener @jsnowviener and Audrey Merton @auvbm
Room sheet here. Words by Audrey Merton.
Photography courtesy of Teagan Ramsey.
Photography courtesy of Mark Owen