WHEN : Until 4th Aug
WHERE : Metro Arts
Across the sea is a new screen-based installation by Anita Holtsclaw. The work explores the part that the landscape and narration play in cinematic constructions of gendered identity. across the sea considers both the role of the artist, as well as the auteur in cinema, to question how the outcomes differ when it is a female rather than a male gaze that is writing, directing and filming the imagery. Through screen-based installation the work investigates the spaces that exist between the gallery and the cinema, in an effort to consider notions of femininity that exist between and throughout the varied spaces of film and art.
Anita Holtsclaw is a Brisbane-based artist, who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Anita is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy at the Queensland University of Technology and is the recipient of an Australian Post-Graduate Award. She is a founding Co-Director and current gallery manager of the artist-run initiative Boxcopy.
Image : across the sea (still), 2012, Digital Video.
