Nick Selenitsch: Play

Overview

It's not every day that you're invited to play squash in a gallery. But Nick Selenitsch's latest exhibition, Play, is not your average show. In a refreshing take on the traditional gallery setting, this Melbourne-based artist has created artworks that can be both played with and observed as abstract sculptures. From the minute you step into Shepparton Art Museum, you're invited to interact with the artworks, throw a squash ball around, limbo, and get all-round handsy.

Using easily available materials, Play is an exciting series of commissioned sculptures that appear to be part game and part test. Guest-curated by Danny Lacy (ex-director of SAM and current director of Westspace), the exhibition consumes the ground floor of the gallery and the sculptural forms are reminiscent of sporting games, territories and demarcated spaces. To hear more about the works, you can hear Danny Lacy in conversation with Nick Selenitsch at the SAM Out Late! artists' talk on Wednesday, March 19. But if you like your exhibitions a bit more sporadic, just turn up any time and limbo in the name of contemporary art.

Image: Nick Selenitsch, Hitting the Wall, 2006 (Installation view).