Dusk

Curated by Victor Manuel Medrano-Bonilla

Artists: Lou Conboy, Peter Maarseveen, Bethany van Rijswijk, Rebecca C Robinson, and Milly Yencken

11 November 2023 – 20 January 2024
Upper Gallery

In the Oxford English dictionary dusk is defined as the darkest part of twilight this brief moment in time for me emanates a sensation not dissimilar to Mike Kelley’s description of Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny, although without its elements of terror, dusk ‘leads us back to something long known and once very familiar, yet now concealed and kept out of sight. It is the unfamiliar familiar, the conventional made suspect’ from which the veil of our modern existence is lifted, revealing however briefly, the fetishistic reality of the divine, the wondrous and the profane, and the possibilities these totemic entities can have in shaping our understanding of our contemporary experience. The five participating artists have been invited to explore these fetishistic wonders and possibilities, which emanate from this brief moment in time, in the medium of their choice.

Exhibition Opening:

Please join us at the Gallery to officially open Dusk on Friday 10 November at 6.00pm, with special guest by Victor Manuel Medrano-Bonilla, Curator.

This is a free event but RSVP is appreciated.

RSVP is appreciated by registering your attendance via the online form here.

Alternatively please email artgallery@devonport.tas.gov.au
with your name, number of attendees, and a contact email and/or phone number.

Floor Talk:

Please join us at the Gallery for a Floor Talk with curator Victor Manuel Medrano-Bonilla on Saturday 11 November at 11.00am as part of opening weekend of the Dusk exhibition.

This is a free event but RSVP is appreciated.

RSVP is appreciated by registering your attendance via the online form here.

Alternatively please email artgallery@devonport.tas.gov.au
with your name, number of attendees, and a contact email and/or phone number.

Image Details: Bethany van Rijswijk, I touched the dew on their hem, 2023, Archival print of collage on paper Edition of 5 + AP