Group Therapy at Immersion Therapy

GROUP THERAPY

OPENING FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER, 2008, 6PM > 9PM

EXHIBITION: SATURDAY 6TH DEC > SUNDAY 21 DEC

@ IMMERSION THERAPY ARTSPACE, 420 HIGH STREET, NORTHCOTE

HUA CUN CHEN
SHIAU-PENG CHEN
ALAN COTTON
BENEDICT ERNST
ANDREA INNOCENT
DAMON KOWARSKY
JESSICA MAIDEN
FATEMEH VAFAEINEJAD
NAOKO YEHENARA

Part and parcel of the modern experience is the sensation of duality; the underlying feeling that one never truly belongs in one time or place.

The competing pulls in our lives; geographic, emotional or temporal are symptoms of a world in which our borders are crumbling and our boundaries are constantly on the move. For many, the reality is that whilst we remain rooted in our daily existence we do so without the same level of grounding we once might have expected.

Articulating the sensation of these oppositions, Group Therapy brings together nine of Australia's most interesting emerging artists in a show which explores the push and pull between cultures and times that are now so prevalent in modern life.

The artists undertaking Group Therapy are united in that they all to some degree juggle the influence and pull of multiple cultures although their individual approaches and use of media adds another layer to the equation.

Immersion Therapy is a non profit art space, committed to exploring contemporary art by artists in Australia and beyond. The program emphasizes artists whose work is either directly or indirectly inspired by Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American themes.