Artist: Hannah Gartside
Curator: Kate Davis
Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia)
20 July - 20 October 2019
review by Michaela Bear for Un Extended
review by Sophia Cai for Art Guide Insiders
mentioned in Art Guide Top 5
Form, like body, should never be assumed
To demonstrate care of ownership
the stained nightie is bathed
& then rolled between 2 towels
to press out excess moisture
before the evaporation reasons
a reshaping. Re-dried & re-domesticated—
When does material not matter
in acts of plunging & tautness?
There is constant weight to malleability,
even when synthetic—the way rumours
may knot like a nightie & can be held
against a body for an arousal
of contempt. A nightie’s length
in comparison to a shoulder strap
is designed to be longer than a throat—
yet unlike a throat, a nightie cannot
be as deeply penetrated—assuming
there is a throat for the gown to tenderly
stroke over—as opposed to being lifted
from the ground, up past the feet—
supposing there are feet & a ground.
by Autumn Royal (2018)
Photos: Louis Lim
