Conspicuous Presence
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 2018 at Trocadero Art Space. Public programming for the exhibition 'Conspicuous Presence'. Photo by Caroline Phillips
TROCADERO ARTSPACE, FOOTSCRAY
Conspicuous Presence at Trocadero Artspace makes visible the work of five Australian women artists, all Women of Colour. Through the heightened material presence of their work, the artists’ deploy conspicuous methods of commanding our attention; accentuating materiality, embracing a highly charged and embodied physicality, and gleaning our sensory reactions through their processes of making.
The contemporary politics of feminist art demand that Women of Colour are given a platform. The Women’s Art Register, historically inclusive of a wide range of cultural and political identities, shares this special International Women’s Day platform with these contemporary artists, who materialise their powerful identities and intersectional experiences through their materially charged practices. Conspicuous Presence recognises their visibility, acknowledges their presence and respects their voices.
Artists: Sofi Basseghi (Iran/Australia), Georgia MacGuire (Indigenous Australia), Ema Shin (Japan/Australia), Khi-Lee Thorpe (Indigenous Australia) and Su Yang (China/Australia).
Other gallery spaces at Trocadero Artspace displayed archival material from the Women's Art Register, from 1975 to the present, including a projection program. The public program for Conspicuous Presence included an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, facilitated by Pru Mitchel, President of Wikimedia Australia.
Supported by Trocadero Artspace Guest Curator Program and the City of Maribyrnong.
