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Octopus 24: Ricochet Gertrude Contemporary 15 June–4 August 2024 Melbourne
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Octopus 24: Ricochet uses a nonlinear framework to bring together artists who reckon intergenerationally with the power of representation and provocation to influence our social and political lives. Select works by long-established and recognised artists are positioned in dialogue with a new generation of practitioners whose own works express an affinity across ideas of autobiography, performativity, sexuality, community, activism and life as art. Engaging with historical and contemporary questions of cultural and personal identity, and the attendant political frameworks, Octopus 24: Ricochet highlights the conceptual resonances of each practice.

The exhibition will feature new commissions by Chelsea Farquhar (Kaurna South Australia), Dominic Guerrera (Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian, Kaurna South Australia) and Truc Truong (Kaurna South Australia) positioned alongside contemporary-historical works by visual artist Destiny Deacon (KuKu and Erub/Mer, born 1957), electronic music pioneer and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti (UK, born 1951), and social history photographer and gay rights activist William Yang (Sydney, born 1943).

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Gertrude Contemporary is a non-profit contemporary art organisation in Preston South, Naarm/Melbourne, with an additional project space, Gertrude Glasshouse, in nearby Collingwood. Established in 1983 as 200 Gertrude Street in Fitzroy, it pioneered Australia’s first combined gallery and studio complex and remains one of the country’s longest-running centres for experimental art.

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21 - 31 High Street
Preston South, VIC
Melbourne
Australia
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Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm
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Melbourne 21 - 31 High Street, Preston South, VIC
Gertrude Contemporary contemporary art institution in Melbourne Australia
Gertrude Contemporary
21 - 31 High Street, Preston South, VIC, Melbourne, Australia
+ 61 3 9480 0068.
http://www.gertrude.org.au

Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm
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