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Listening Under Water exhibition at Perth Centre for Photography October 2014.

Detail of installation Listening Under Water

Installation Listening Under Water

Listening Under Water Review by Laetitia Wilson This exhibition evolved from Into the woods alone and the research I undertook in 2012 in Greece and Czech Republic. The photographs are portraits of Greek people living in Australia.  Art Review in the West Australian by Laetitia Wilson.

Catalogue and Art review from The West Australian newspaper.

Into the Woods Alone review in West Aust and the catalogue for Into the Woods Alone can be downloaded for further information.

Into the woods alone West Aust

Intothewoodsalone catalogue

Into the Woods Alone

Into the Woods Alone is the final installation piece exhibited at Turner Galleries Perth WA. It is the result of 18 months research and travel back to Greece and Czechoslovakia, where I undertook interviews and collected historical information centred around the Greek Civil War as a springboard for investigating the many meanings behind personal and collective identity in time of modern globalisation. During this research, I was made further aware of how modern societies need to create the ‘other’ to give meaning to self.

Public interaction with Lane Way Installation THE ECHO OF THEIR VOICES ECHO IN THE BLACK SAND

These images were taken by Hassan Mounzer when in Subiaco. Thank you for the images Hassan.

Image by Hassan Mounzer

Hassan Mounzer took this photo while in Subiaco.

Photo by Hassan Mounzer

Lane way installation at night 2.

Lane way installation at night.

THE WEIGHT OF THEIR VOICES ECHO IN THE BLACK SAND

This ephemeral installation is inspired by a story about a piano which arrived from England in the 1800’s. This piano was picked up on the sandy shores of WA and carried inland by European settlers. They carried the piano  for hours, over difficult windswept sand dunes, away from the encroaching sea. Often, the men stopped to rest, and at one point one of the men opened up the piano and began to play a sonata. This foreign sound floated in the landscape, carrying a sense of awe, melancholy, yearning  and loss.

Some believe this piano was the same piano that Dom Salvado played in Subiaco to raise money for New Norcia.

The work is in a lane way besides Smales Jewellers of Rockerby Road Subiaco.