If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey

Past Exhibition
12 September - 12 December 2020
In a lounge room, an older woman reclines on a recliner chair, a younger woman lays on the floor holding up the back of the recliner chair.
In a lounge room, an older woman reclines on a recliner chair, a younger woman lays on the floor holding up the back of the recliner chair.

Recent events have exposed how truly our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with potential for support and harm in both a micro and macro sense.

When

12 September to 12 December 2020

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What brings together the artists featured in this exhibition is an engagement with a world beyond art, directed towards thoughtful and productive experimentation, the re-imagining of self and structures, and creative tactics for strength, vulnerability and survival.

If artists can show you the world as they see it, what we learn from a project that situates itself here, in South Australia, is about new and local perspectives on the way culture is formed, how art is made and what counts as art.

If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey celebrates the breadth of art practice and critical perspectives emerging from South Australia’s artistic communities. Presented in partnership with SALA – South Australian Living Artists Festival, this major exhibition outcome for ACE Open will support ten artists/collectives based in South Australia to present ambitious new work commissions. The Survey has been developed through state-wide research and studio visits led by ACE Open’s Artistic Director, Patrice Sharkey, and Curator-in-Residence, Rayleen Forester.

Feature Image: Emmaline Zanelli, 2020. Photo Sam Roberts

Lead Artists

Aida Azin,
Kate Bohunnis,
Sundari Carmody,
Carly Tarkari Dodd,
fine print,
Yusuf Ali Hayat,
Matt Huppatz,
Kurt Bosecke,
Sandra Saunders,
Emmaline Zanelli,
Tessa Crathern,
William Gregory,
James Kurtze,
Ellese McLindin,
Jackie Saunders
  • Sculpture consisting of two metal, chained, hanging oblong objects with a pink rubber strip draped over. A swinging metal pendulum swings closely back and forth close to the oblong objects.
  • Brightly lit gallery large white plinth with rectangular and circular metal sculptures on top. Hanging yellow sculpture seen behind white, fabric, curtain veil from celling to floor.
  • Black room with large screen on each three walls. the screens display the same image from different angles of two people wearing black lying on a pink bed in a pink lit bedroom.
  • Three works displayed on white, gallery wall. To the left five collaged hang colourful framed paintings, in the middle a sculpture on a shelf and to the right, a large canvas abstract painting.
  • Three large canvas works. The works are collaged with patterns and words in pastel colours of green, blue, pink and orange.
  • A wall installation comprised of two linear rows of framed portrait images dispersed with framed words.
Sculpture consisting of two metal, chained, hanging oblong objects with a pink rubber strip draped over. A swinging metal pendulum swings closely back and forth close to the oblong objects.
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Support

If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey has been supported through Creative Partnerships Australia’s Plus1 initiative, Candy Bennett and Edwina Lehmann, and ACE Open’s Visionaries.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

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