Friday, 8 November 2024

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) ends the year with Studios: 2024, a group exhibition featuring new commissions by the 2024 ACE Studio Program artists, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Abbey Murdoch, Marian Sandberg, Katey Smoker, and Emmaline Zanelli.

Studios: 2024 is a showcase of the diverse practices and work developed as part of ACE’s annual Studio Program – a fully-supported professional development opportunity for South Australian artists.

Curated by ACE Artistic Director Danni Zuvela, the exhibition features the many disciplines of the 2024 Studio Program artists, including painting, video, installation, assemblage and sculpture.-

Carly Tarkari Dodd uses traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving techniques to critique regimes of adornment, reimagining the jewels of Empire in contemporary soft-sculptural forms; Abbey Murdoch’s installation explores the housing crisis through the lens of low-income communities, combining video and hard sculpture in environments that evoke physical and psychological precarity; Marian Sandberg’s large-scale kinetic sculpture asks what it is to be human in the age of accelerated technological development; Katey Smoker’s expanded paintings embrace both chance operations and highly considered experiments to question the limits and meanings of paint as a material; Emmaline Zanelli reflects on the cultural and economic dimensions of exotic pets in Roxby Downs with an installation of repurposed animal cages.