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Beyond the window
p14_artmatters_250.jpgBeyond the Window
Bus Gallery
117 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
(Until April 5)

Just a few blocks from the State Library, artist-run initiative Bus Gallery is proving itself to be a fantastic space for experimental artists.

The warehouse space has housed many sound installations and unconventional performances since it opened in 2001. The current group exhibition, Beyond the Window, offers the visitor a unique viewing experience.

Walking into the gallery you are immediately faced with works that explore perception and the moving image in unusual ways. 

Erin Veronica Ender has created an installation that requires viewer participation. Two retro stereo-viewers are set up in a closed-off space, with the viewer invited to look through them and interpret the imagery and story that unfolds. What you see is a sequence of comic book-like performances. I was reminded of the Viewmaster Disney superhero stories that circulated when I was a child. However, unlike the Disney imagery, Ender’s visual landscapes are ambiguous; open to multiple interpretations.

Yandell Walton and Clare Hassett have begun to collaborate on a series of works that blend the photographic image with video projection. The first in the series, Emergency, highlights the artists’ concerns with time, mortality and memory. It’s a moving piece that explores the all-consuming nature of grief. The large photographic print requires that you confront the loss that the young woman in the work herself faces. It’s a wonderfully composed image that will no doubt resonate with many viewers, with the use of video projection adding another dimension to it, bringing the scene alive.

Curator and artist Martina Mrongovius works with holographic images to produce stunning spatial montages. Set up across the main gallery, once is required to move around the works on office chairs in order to view them, discovering in the process the figures and architectural landscapes that appear to move and emerge from  within the flat screens.

The many artists in Beyond the Window investigate the connections between people and spaces, and between work and viewer. The end result is a dynamic optical and sonic experience that will no doubt captivate its audience.
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