The ‘Retroactive Collaboration’ continues with the latest work from artists Ms & Mr at Kaliman Gallery, Sydney. This being their second solo show at Kaliman and continuing their journey of articulating and investigating their relationship through drawings, video and installation. The emotional quality in the works is both profound and elusive as one feels a sense of walking on hallowed ground akin to prying into private lives.
To understand one’s partner and to share in a common experience surely is the center of intimacy, and one of the great strengths in the work of real life couple Ms & Mr as they articulate this through real life and reworked drawings and footage. They question what is reality past and what is current past, or, if you will, remembered past and future? The mystical amalgam of the tangible and the intangible in a relationship between two people seems wrapped up in their understanding of who they are and who their partner is. History plays a role in that. Here Ms and Mr seem determined to understand and empathise with each other’s life experience.
In their own words they are operating so as…
” to work and relate not only in their present state, but also with their own and each other’s former and future selves. This is sublimated through material created at a time (chronologically speaking) in which they didn’t know each other. This inters the notion that distinctions between the past, present and future are an illusion, allowing for the proposition that they were always in relationship.” [Biography; www.msandmr.net]
Further comments on the experience of viewing the works in this show can be read here ['..a wormhole'] and here;["Married is the new black..."].
Ms and Mr will be showing at The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space, Christchurch, New Zealand from Sept 15 until Oct 11, 09.
The duo have also been working on a film piece as part of the upcoming exhibit ‘Reality Check – Watching Sylvania Waters’. The project, which has funding from ABC Television, is a selection of invited artists-in-residence responding to the the cult ‘reality’ TV series ‘Sylvania Waters’; A television program which delved into family relations in a medium that had not been seen before.
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