Loss of Horizon - Opening Night

Stanley Street Gallery directors Merilyn Bailey and Liza Feeney attended Sydney College of the Arts together from 1980 to 1986 completing a BA and Grad dip in Visual Arts.The gallery opened in October 2012 and is a beautiful space in the heart of the city with a reputation for showing a unique a diverse range of artworks, mediums and artists, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics and contemporary jewellery. Our focus is not on the materials used but on the ideas and concepts being explored by the artists.

Stanley Street Gallery

Opening Night for group show 'Loss of Horizon'

<blockquote><em>&quot;﻿but can we esape becoming dizzy? And who can affirm that vertigo does not haunt the whole of existence?&quot; (Franz Fanon)</em></blockquote><h2>Have a drink, meet the artists and  join us for the Opening Celebration for our end of year group show &#x27;Loss of Horizon&#x27;. </h2><p>This exhibition considers different frameworks of vertigo and disorientation as starting points to re-imagine temporal senses and a fragmented sense of being in the world. Bringing together five artists - Jacquie Meng, Neil Beedie, Claire Welch, Jemima Lucas, Brigitte Podrasky, writer Mitchell Krewaz for the exhibition text and a sound response from DJ Niko Plaskasovitis - Loss of Horizon invites different meditations on navigating destabilisation.</p>

<p><em>&quot;There are many ways to fall. Amongst them, you can fall down, fall apart and fall in love. Each new way of falling is predicated on a relocation of the self to somewhere new. Each new way of falling also requires the acknowledgement of the passage of time as the price paid for the movement from point A to point B. To fall in love can happen as rapidly as falling out of love, however, it can also be excruciatingly slow, demanding that you are acutely aware of each descending moment. Nevertheless, you have relocated, you are not where or how you previously were. Sometimes we find ourselves at our new destination without acknowledging the journey it took to get there. You can be on your face in an instant, not knowing where it all went wrong. The choreography of the falling body is congruent with the chronometry of falling time, creating the unique circumstances for the transformative qualities of disequilibrium and freefall. In order to fall through the spatial, one must fall through the temporal. In order to fall through the temporal, one must fall through the spatial. As Laurie Anderson describes this process in 1983’s Walking and Falling, ‘over and over, you’re falling. And then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.&quot;</em></p><p>- excerpt of text response by Mitchell Krewaz </p>

<h3>Inspired by the thinking of Hito Streyl, Alvin Toffler, Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hamed, Octavia Butler and Mark Fisher, the curation draws from the notion that the horizon is no longer a stable perspective onto the future and that we currently inhabit a condition of free-fall.</h3>

<h2>T﻿IME: 6 - 8PM</h2><h2>W﻿HEN: WEDNESDAY 23rd NOVEMBER</h2><h2>W﻿HERE: 52/54 STANLEY STREET, DARLINGHURST</h2><p></p>

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