Tracey Moffatt: Invocations
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
28 March - 12 May 2001
The Victoria Miro Gallery presents a solo exhibition of TRACEY MOFFATT's latest series Invocations. The exhibition coincides with a mid-career survey show at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and a major presentation of her film and video works at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station as well as the existing works on display in the permanent collection at Tate Modern. Invocations is a return to the large scale format and rich colour of her earlier classic work, Something More. Grand in both scale and execution, Tracey Moffatt hired film studios and had elaborate sets constructed evoking a 'Disney meets Goya' landscape. The central character is at once a young girl in a menacing enchanted forest and a seductive fully grown woman in a barren desert, juxtaposed with demonic figures and the sensuous muscularity of a naked male protagonist. The work recalls any number of storybooks from childhood with the grittier fictional landscapes of adulthood.
Born in 1960 in Brisbane, TRACEY MOFFATT is Australia's most successful artist internationally. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions in Europe and the US, and is regularly curated into major group shows, including the 1997 Venice Biennale, the 1992/93, 1996 and 2000 Sydney Biennales, Prospect '96, and the 1996 and 1998 São Paulo Biennales. Her films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and many articles and several books have been written about her work. In 1997 a major show was held at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and in 1999 a large survey was held at Fundacio "la Caixa" in Barcelona and the Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris. Moffatt lives and works in Sydney and New York. New and Recent Work 1990 - 2000 The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (7 April -19 May 2001); Film and Video works Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London (4 May - 3 June 2001)
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