Eva Fernandez: 2009 and 2010

Artist Talk, Subiaco Library, 30 August 2011

7x7x7 artist talk, 7 July 2010

6x6 artist talk, 18 May 2010

Eva Fernandez, Saddle, 2009, (from series Memento Mori) Giclee print, 100x70cm Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Transient States

10 May - 12 July 2009

Curator: Sally Quin

Kevin Ballantine

Rebecca Dagnall

Eva Fernandez

Karin Gottschalk

Michael Gray

Mark McPherson

Graham Miller

Tony Nathan

Max Pam

Juha Tolonen

Toni Wilkinson

Transient States - Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Transient States presents a range of creative responses to the urban landscape of Perth, a city whose physical fabric appears to be in a state of continual and often radical transition. This exhibition considers how this phenomenon manifests itself in the work of eleven photographers whose work reflects a sustained meditation on place, memory, and collective and individual identity.

Exhibiting photographers document the shifting landscape in a variety of ways: recording disused or decaying spaces or the suspended moment prior to an object’s collapse; presenting the architecture of the city or domestic environment as the framework within which the human condition can be analysed; and focusing on physical environments which question current taste and notions of comfort and authenticity.

The urban landscape is frequently depicted as a somewhat malevolent backdrop to human activity but, equally, environments of unexpected beauty and refuge are also pictured. Approaches range from a formalist arrangement of architectural elements to a fantastical approach to the possibilities of the spaces in which we live. A number of series of works from the 1980s are included and act as a counterpoint to contemporary explorations of the city, underlining themes of transience and memory.