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| Klari Agar, 8pm Tomorrow (detail) |
Visual Artist Klari Agar pushes the boundaries through her art
and thought and brings to WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC the large experimental piece 8pm
Tomorrow.
She is deeply interested in the objective, subjective and diverse sense of time, place and subject that is explored throughout the
medium of photography. Through the work 8pm Tomorrow Agar intends to translate this photographic philosophy into a
non-photographic medium.
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When meeting over coffee Agar talks about the contemporary American photographer Nan
Goldin being a strong influence in her photography and art practice. Golden, born in 1953, became famous in the 1980s
for her “gritty, intimate, often chaotic images of friends, lovers and herself
in the Boston queer and party scenes of the time”.
The influence of Goldin can be seen both in Agar’s photography (i_luv_dirt&sentientpuke) and reference to body image, sexuality, identity, chaos and society in the drawings and writings on the large piece of acetate hanging in WINDOWSPACE, which forms the 'backdrop' to a tangle, of what seem limbs, that sprawl on the 'stage' of the window.
The random writing in the work captures another influence - surrealist automatism (https://www.tate.org.au/art/automatism). Almost like dumping words and pictures down without thought but each seemingly influencing each other.
The influence of Goldin can be seen both in Agar’s photography (i_luv_dirt&sentientpuke) and reference to body image, sexuality, identity, chaos and society in the drawings and writings on the large piece of acetate hanging in WINDOWSPACE, which forms the 'backdrop' to a tangle, of what seem limbs, that sprawl on the 'stage' of the window.
The random writing in the work captures another influence - surrealist automatism (https://www.tate.org.au/art/automatism). Almost like dumping words and pictures down without thought but each seemingly influencing each other.
Klari Agar, 8pm Tomorrow (detail 2018)
Agar:
"Ultimately, I believe it is impossible to capture the
passing present unless one expresses an exact thought or feeling
objectively. Here my large-scale installation produces the experience
repetitively ..."
“The work is
6 months of life reproducing consistent experiences that fell into a rhythm
with the ritualistic creativity; it is deeply caught up with the personal and
social atmospheres of queer youth culture".
Klari returns to Victorian College of the Arts in 2019 after taking a GAP year - WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC has been pleased to be part of her journey of exploration in 2018.
Klari Agar will be at WINDOWSPACE-BEEAC
on Saturday 15th December 2-4pm
join us to share her experience.
join us to share her experience.
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