Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney presents a major survey exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Julie Rrap bringing together key photographic series and installations, encompassing the past twenty-five years of her practice.
Guest curated by Victoria Lynn, the exhibition examines the uncompromising way Rrap has used her own body in photography, video and sculpture to question representation, perception and power structures.
Rrap’s work goes to the heart of photography, occupying the ambivalent zone between the documentation of reality and the artifice of invention. Few Australian artists have so rigorously depicted the female form through their own body and few continue to work across multiple mediums in such a consistently compelling way.
Drawing from a range of collections, the exhibition includes Rrap’s first major work Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (1982), held in the MCA Collection, as well as the key installations Rise and Fall (1994), and Vital Statistics (1997). A component of new work produced especially for the exhibition will also be presented. Born in 1950, Julie Rrap is one of Australia’s most prominent artists, with her work being held in most state and national collections. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, including the 1986, 1988 and 1992 Biennales of Sydney.
Victoria Lynn is an independent curator and writer based in Melbourne. Her extensive experience includes curating over 50 exhibitions of Australian and international art in her positions as Director, Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her most recent exhibitions include the 2006 TarraWarra Biennial in Victoria, and the 3rd Auckland Triennial.
A publication will be co-published by MCA and Piper Press to accompany the exhibition. It will include a curatorial essay by curator Victoria Lynn and 130 colour reproductions of art works. 30 August 2007 – 28 January 2008. -- www.mca.com.au
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