Julie Rrap: Remaking the World
August 8, 2015I found the perfect toddler friendly exhibition space on Friday in Julie Rrap’s Remaking the World, Artists Dreaming. Television screens suspended from the ceiling entirely out of reach meant my inner conservator could relax and enjoy the exhibition without fear my kids would *gasp* touch the artwork!
Above and beyond giving me the chance to exhale within a museum environment this is a really lovely space, the title operating in combination with the installation to produce an experience that is contemplative, peaceful and hopeful.
The adjacent room, replete with low lighting, trip hazards, and things kids can but shouldn’t touch, is a polar experience full of motion, dynamism and fragmentation. Made somewhat sinister through the looped projection of eyes dilating to a point that can be described as demonic, the ever changing pupil replicates a lunar cycle, conjuring traditional associations of the feminine and witchcraft.
Julie Rrap: Remaking the World is at The Ian Potter Museum of Art 23 July - 15 November 2015.
