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JARVIS DOONEY is a Berlin based contemporary art gallery, founded in 2013 by Christy Jarvis & Michael Dooney, with a focus on lens based media; that being photography, video and time based works. Presenting both European based artists and those from the founders homeland Australia, the gallery acts as a point of cultural exchange between Europe and Oceania; giving artists an opportunity for their work to be discovered by a curious public in a thriving international community.
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#throwbackthursday Only six days left to enter the Bowness Photography Prize!
This photograph, ‘Delphi’ (2016), forms part of Polixeni Papapetrou’s series, Eden. The ten photographs that make up this body of work show young women wearing floral dresses. The models stand in front of floral backgrounds while holding or wearing an arrangement of fresh flowers. The images merge figure and ground so that the models seem to disappear into their surroundings. With this merging of formal elements Papapetrou evoked a forged unity between the young women and the flowers, between nature and culture. The flowers symbolise the cycle of life and the passing of time, while the series reflects on the young women’s transformation as they move through childhood and emerge into the adult world. In this way, Eden explores themes that are central to Papapetrou’s oeuvre; illuminating her interest in transience and in-between, transitionary stages of life. With this work, Papapetrou won the 2017 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Bowness Photography Prize
Call for entries until 8 July 2020
ENTER HERE:
https://www.mga.org.au/bowness-prize
Explore more works by Papapetrou in MGA’s collection here:
https://www.mga.org.au/collection/explore/index/artist_247/1
Image: Polixeni PAPAPETROU
Delphi 2016
from the series Eden
pigment ink-jet print 127.5 x 85.0 cm
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection
donated by MGA Foundation 2017
MGA 2017.62
courtesy of the Estate of Polixeni Papapetrou Page, Michael Reid Sydney and Jarvis Dooney Galerie
This weekend Alice Connew sat down with Michael Dooney of Jarvis Dooney Galerie to discuss Patti Smith, correct pronunciations of Connew, books as art and her (our!) upcoming new title ‘Still Looking Good’ — the final part of a triadic collaboration with dancer/choreographer Oliver Connew.
Photo 1: Daniela Elorza
Photo 2: Jarvis Dooney Galerie
Mercedes Debeyne is showing at Jarvis Dooney Galerie's Postcard Salon till 20 April.
"The photograph on the postcard is from the series “Change“.
In 2010 Mercedes Debeyne was part of the student exchange programm „WatchingYouWatchingMe“ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Initiated by Aida Muluneh and Eva Maria Ocherbauer this project was funded by German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). The results were shown in Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin in 2010 as part of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography, and in the Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba as part of Addis Foto Fest (AFF) in December 2010.
Her series focuses on the „change“ in one of the most rapidly transforming cities on the globe. A walk between the rural and the urban.
Mercedes Debeyne was born in Belgium and is based in Berlin since 1992. After graduation from the Neue Schule of Fotografie in Berlin in 2009, with the series „in broad daylight“, Mercedes continues to work in black and white. Urban places and desolate landscapes are her main interests. She sees herself as a wanderer, a flaneur inspired by photographers like John Gossage and Atget, focussing on the impressionistic character of places. Mercedes produces unspectacular silent photographs with a touch of surrelism."
thx again Jarvis Dooney Galerie xx
en mi se desgarro el velo de maya, Pero es algo que siempre amenaza con envolverte, es la tensión constante entre la harmonia y la neurosis.
