True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works

Overview

Fitzroy’s Centre for Contemporary Photography is home to the first major survey of leading Australian artist David Rosetzky's work. True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works is a curated culmination of 15 years of practice from one of our country's most prolific photo and video artists. Increasingly collaborating with artists from different fields and exhibiting across a range of mediums including photograph, video art, photo-collage and sculpture, a recurring theme of Rosetzky's work is the discrepancy between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us.

Allowing viewers to journey the transition from early lo-fi, singular portraits through to longer-duration pieces with cinematic tone, the exhibition covers a broad range from Rosetzky's personal and commissioned pieces. Included in the more refined spectrum of work is Portrait of Cate Blanchett, a 9-minute video work commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in 2008. The video portrait is set against the simple background of an interior workshop of the Sydney Theatre Company, textured by a contemplative Blanchett as she navigates and manipulates her actions and movements in front of the camera.

This introspective style of private and public exploration through the medium of video portraiture is relatively unknown terrain, at which Rosetzky is certainly a pioneer. Also featured in the exhibition is Half Brother (2013), a major new video work commissioned by the CCP.