Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Video Lounge Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions News Catalogues Online Projects How to propose an exhibition Exhibitions for Hire 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 Volt May - June, 2001 Gallery One Andrew Curtis Andrew Curtis' nocturnal images of electricity substations in suburban Victoria suggest the magnificence of the monumental within the banality of the everyday. Caught somewhere between the objectivity of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the stylistic surrealism of David Lynch, Curtis' luminous colour images bring vividly to life a barely perceived aspect of the urban landscape. Image Credits: •  Andrew Curtis, Glen Iris (detail), 1999 Authority Gallery One Polixeni Papapetrou Are contemporary design houses the new and future royalty, and the logo-wearers the new vassals, followers of a highborn notion of fashion? In her latest body of work, Polixeni Papapetrou casts an ironic eye on sartorial marks of status - comparing the motifs of aristocratic power in Renaissance Europe with the designer-logo tee shirts of contemporary global culture. Image credits: •  Polixeni Papapetrou, from Authority, 2001 We Can Do Anything Gallery One Darren Sylvester The perfection of Sylvester's images and the untrammeled optimism of the texts can lead one to read his work as a parody of advertising. But one would be wrong to do so. Sylvester is not a critic, but a die-hard romantic. The care he bestows on the surface of his images is in order to elevate their reading, to deny the viewer the easy option of cynical dismissal. One of Melbourne's rising stars. Image credits: •  Darren Sylvester, Everything In Life Depends On Yourself, 2000 Rhopography Gallery Two Joachim Froese In this presentation of work made especially for ACP, Froese continues his construction of melodramatic metaphor using dead insects. Here, in apparently dynamic scenarios which belie their many days of construction, and in a scale that presents the miniature as grand spectacle, beetles and bugs play out scenarios of epic proportion. Image credits: •  Joachim Froese, from Rhopography, 2001 Terms and Conditions | © Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net | Hosting by Dreamhost