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Jan Nelson + Liza May Post
27 August - 14 November 2004
Presenting the work of Australian artist Jan Nelson and Dutch artist Liza May Post this exhibition represents the third in the MCA's series positioning the work of an Australian artist alongside that of an international peer.
The exhibition highlights how these two leading artists utilise the body to examine complex psychological states. Post's strange, moody images feature solitary figures inhabiting surreal environments, while Nelson's emotionally charged sculptures, paintings and photographs explore the angst, turmoil and insecurities of adolescence.
Jan Nelson & Liza May Post includes a suite of 21 intimate portraits of young people on the cusp of puberty from Nelson's ongoing body of work, Walking in Tall Grass (1999-2004). Also on display are a number of photographs, paintings and two new sculptural works, Blackwood (2004) and Down (2004), completing the series.
Like Nelson, Post is recognised for her multi-discplinary practice which combines photography, film and video. Exploring issues of alienation and vulnerability, her work, as with Nelson's, focuses on the human figure almost always introverted or turned away from the world around it. Post presents a selection of stand-alone photographic and film works spanning the mid 1990s to 2001, including the films Visitors(1998), originally created for a psychiatric institution in Amsterdam, and Trying (1998), presented at the 2001 Venice Biennale.
ADMISSION: FREE
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