A Physical Reader draws together Nathan Beard, Sophie G. Nixon and Devi Seetharam, artists who look to gestures and adornment to manifest the sustained, yet often overlooked, cultural idioms that shape gender and sexuality. The artists pull on the threaded lineages and hierarchies that find form in the seemingly innocuous details of cultural vernaculars. Their painterly, image-based and material inquiries create aesthetic frameworks that re-read the inferences embedded in dress, the motion of a hand and textiles.
Curator - Jeremy Eaton
This exhibition is a part of CAVES Guest
Curator Program 2022 - and made possible with
support from City of Melbourne.
Image: Nathan Beard, Floral Extension 1 (2019) Digital print on Canson Baryta. 50 x 75 cm
Image: Nathan Beard, Floral Extension 1 (2019) Digital print on Canson Baryta. 50 x 75 cm