Splitting Sides - MOP Projects

Overview

Kicking off the year at MOP Projects is Splitting Sides, a vibrant new exhibition focused on cultural disparities. Curators Andrew Christie and Brigitte Gerges will bring together a group of emerging artists in order to tease out the multifaceted nature of Australian identity.

Dominic Byrne, a self-described "disembodied performer", will explore different representations of the self in comical ways. Drawing on her Chinese heritage, Frankie Chow's work confronts the fierceness of racial abuse. Her performance project will use laughter as a method of overcoming aggression against minorities.

Martin James is concerned with the nature of time within the act of migrating. Using Australia's landscape as a visual language, he'll reflect on the time taken to flee, to search for a new home, to wait indefinitely and to eventually resettle. Handi Saleh's work springs from Islamic calligraphy, fleshing out its formal qualities into sculptural representations. And finally, Andrea Srisurapon delves into the hybrid cultural identity of her own family.

While at MOP Projects, you can also catch House of Mnemonic, a suite of paintings from Camilla Cassidy. Her practice is focused on exploring a set of binary oppositions: material and immaterial, spectral and concrete, past and present.