Bringing together major video works by the collaborative duo, ‘Architecture Makes Us’ explores craggy geographies, territorialisation, surveillance, exhausted systems and future philosophies. In this landmark survey commissioned by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Leber and Chesworth offer a rich exploration of the way society is impacted by the geographical, technological and the architectural influences that surround us. These works point towards the architecture of our world in the broadest sense, examining structures both physical and invisible.
As part of ‘Architecture Makes Us’, CCP has commissioned ‘Geography Becomes Territory Becomes’ (2018); an 8-channel video installation exploring the island fortress of Suomenlinna, Finland.
Through these rigorous, politically engaged, and at times humorous video works, ‘Architecture Makes Us’ encourages a deeper look at one of Australia’s most lauded mid-career artistic duos.
#ArchitectureMakesUs is the fourth mid-career survey curated by CCP, following major exhibitions focusing on the work of Anne Zahalka (2008), Simryn Gill (2009) and David Rosetzky (2013).
Curators: Naomi Cass, Pippa Milne and Madé Spencer-Castle.
Free Artist Talk: Saturday 9 March, 11am.
Image: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, ‘Zaum Tractor, Eternal Pools’, 2013. Archival inkjet print, 66 x 100cm. From the Zaum Tractor video project. Courtesy the artists.
This project has been supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Gridchinhall Art Centre (Moscow), Art-Amnesty Project by Olga Kalashnikova (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), and 16thLINE Gallery (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).
