The Australian Centre for Photography has taken the unusual step of handing its winter exhibition schedule over to three artists who are better known for painting, performance art and sculpture than they are for photography. Showcasing photographs by Hiromi Tango, Rodney Pople and Terry Burrows the winter season hopes to show how each artist's photography is informed and enhanced by their broader artistic practises.
Hiromi Tango’s Dust Storm combines photography, performance, video and vivid soft sculptures and evolves from a series of photographs that shows Tango’s, "pathway towards her personal resurgence". Tango is well known for her work Dance that transformed the MCA’s Bella Room in 2013 and her interactive community projects.
Rodney Pople's Lie of the Land uses photography as an imperceptible but backdrop for a new series of paintings. Featuring depictions of wild animals, the exhibition, "investigates the dark depths of humankind’s contradictions by drawing attention to the artificial nature of religious, colonial and political authorities."
Best known for his paintings, Terry Burrows’ Banaras Backs evolved from a series of residencies in India and developed into a book of 1008 images of the backs of Hindus staring out onto the Ganges at Varanasi, one of India’s most revered sites.
The Winter Season will be launched on 30 May and will be open to the public from 31 May to 17 August 2014.
The Australian Centre for Photography is located at 257 Oxford St, Paddington, NSW, 2021.
