Family Portrait, 2018
Arcade show –Sarah Rudledge and Helen Pallikaros
16th May – 2nd June 2018
Family Portrait is a work that investigates complexities involved in externalising feelings of love and pride between two subjects for the camera. These concepts are explored through video works as two quintessential family portrait moments.
In Living Room, poses are struck and the dynamics of power, status and partnership are subtly negotiated. Front Porch takes place at the threshold of public/private space. Instead of well-crafted family portraits the works reveal the messiness of rehearsal and relation.
Family Portrait considers what is desired when we attempt to perform and preserve an authentic rendering of a ‘between us’ for the lens.
Sarah Rudledge and Helen Pallikaros are Melbourne based artists working on an ongoing collaborative project titled Lampheads. Both artists have completed a Masters in Contemporary Art at the VCA and also exhibit independently.
Family Portrait, 2017
Family Portrait the performance explores the complexities of framing familial relations for the camera. The sitters, with faces masked, evade reference to identity and touch on the strange but familiar. Where the family portrait is usually considered a crafted public display of the personal/private space, as a performance work, attention is brought to the uncomfortable negotiations and tentative gesture that occur when intimacy is contrived in a real-time, up close and personal moment.
Performance and Framed digital prints, dimensions variable.
Part of the group exhibition - Out of Body Experience curated by Marcus Encel, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood.
Performers: Helen Pallikaros and Gary Anderson.
Soft Meat Tender Edges
Lampheads Performance, 2017
This performance formed part of a group show curated by Travis John and Sarah Rudledge. This was a one night event shown in a vacated apartment above a Pizza Shop.
Artists included Ben Aitken, Sarah Rudledge, The Band Presents…, Jaya Fausch, Michael Salerno, The Ryan Sisters, Nabilah Nordin & Nick Modrzewski, Tara O’Conal and Travis John.
Photography: Brent Edwards
