During Melbourne’s austere lockdowns, Adriane Strampp was restricted to her Collingwood home for months at…
Erlösung: The Animal Gaze, dianne tanzer gallery + projects 2 – 23 April 2011
Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects 2 – 23 April 2011
108 – 110 Gertrude Street Fitzroy VIC 3065
Opening hours:
Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat 12pm – 5pm
105 x 225 cm
105 x 150 cm
Hares, horses and stags have long featured in Strampp’s work, images of the hunted and the haunted, symbols of both strength and vulnerability. In conjunction with Strampp’s 2011 residency at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, Erlösung: The Animal Gaze is a project drawing exhibition that considers the animal gaze, and the relationship between the observer and the observed.
The animals in this exhibition are not cute; rather they are solid, monumental creatures drawn life-size, yet paradoxically they remain fragile and exposed. Their wary gaze regards us, guarded and measured, and they remain ‘in absentia’. In our desire for connection we long for our gaze to be returned, but as they look through or past us our projections are mirrored back, only to remind us of our imposition on their world.