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Hijacked

Friday 13 June to Saturday 19 July
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Gallery 1, 2 & 4

Curated by Mark McPherson

"The most important book of photographs to come out of Australia in the past five years ... Hijacked defines the shape of things to come."
Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography

Providing a voice for some of the most exciting and provocative new photography from Australia and America, Hijacked takes a road less travelled. The exhibition erases traditional boundaries between art, document and snapshot to point towards the future of contemporary photomedia.

Shunning repetitive and predictable curatorial structures, Hijacked's aesthetic is driven by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the prevailing wanderlust of their generation, their work exhibits a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes. The exploration of suburban pleasures is placed on par with 'high' artistic experimentation.

Just as remarkable as the exhibition itself is the story of how it came about. Mark McPherson, an emerging WA photographer, initially conceived of the project as a zine. Five years on, working from suburban Fremantle, Hijacked had grown through informal online networks to bring the work of 44 Australian and US artists into a substantial casebound book. Having realised the publication without leaving Perth for the past four years, Mark McPherson is circling the globe to launch the book in Fremantle, Berlin, New York and Sydney.

Relentless in its ambition, much like the photographers, writers and contemporaries whose work it presents, Hijacked is a hybrid of real time photography and life in real time.

US artists:

Brian Cross, Jonathan Gitelson, Shen Wei, Amy Stein, Angela Boatwright, Todd Fisher, Timothy Archibald, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Bill Sullivan, Dean Karr, Lisa Kereszi, Alana Celii, Ed Zipco, Tod Seelie, Robin Schwartz, Grant Willing, Suzy Poling, Sarah Small, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Jason Lazarus

Australian artists:

Brad Rimmer, Caitlin Harrison, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, David Griggs, Duncan Barnes, Emily Portmann, Fiona Morris, Flavia Schuster, Gareth Willis, Graham Miller, Greta Anderson, Jack Pam, James Mellon, Janelle Ryan, Joshua Webb, Juha Tolonen, Mark McPherson, Martin Mischkulnig, Michael Gray, Nathalie Latham, Toni Wilkinson, Tony Nathan and Karron Bridges

Book edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam

See Also: Exhibition Catalogue

IMAGE © Brian Cross Lil Cesar, Los Angeles 1998
IMAGE © Robin Schwartz Tower 2005
IMAGE © Mark McPherson Patrick and Sera, Victoria Park 2006
IMAGE © Amy Stein Watering Hole 2005