3 Exhibtions

Overview

Three artists at the MOP Gallery right now are showing works which play with profiles. Heath Franco plays with video in PARK LAND — three televisions surround you at ground level, while two projected images meet in the crevice of a wall to make one images or two, as the moment dictates. It gives you an experience that feels about as reassuring as The Mighty Boosh feels hygenic. Figures are profiled and superimposed across the landscapes, chanting, talking or looking at you at the centre: a dog headed person, a bird, a pink goggled woman. It's confessional, harranging and uncomfortable. For all the apparent focus on the visual, the voices talking, screaming and everyday comments layer up into a rhythmic aural landscape.

Kate Scardifield's The Whole and the Sum of Its Parts plays with silhouettes. Her mostly 2-D cut outs feature women's faces and figures, and jagged coronas on heads and bellies. Coronas being broken free of by figures of women escaping from the wall with knives and syringe. Two-dimensional shadow bodies splayed out like a dissected frog, with Frida Khalo hearts.

Camille Serisier has a three series of images across the third gallery — Breath of Life, Hand of God and Animal Offerings. The breath of life presents five people in expressive profile, each one breathing their life out as things: ships, cats hamburgers, chocolates, tomatoes, guitars, hamburgers, pandas, mushrooms. The lives on the wall branch out like vines, or rising steam — or the forking paths of actual lives. The Hand of God offers everyday things — like vodka or condoms — with the illuminated auras of saints or communist heroes. Animal Offerings, meanwhile, collects Seriesier's animal drawings. All three artists have something to offer — but Serisier's spoken dreams and the crooked lines of Scardifield's women present faces and figures that are especially hard to forget.