Artist Talk: Sonia Leber & David Chesworth

Join artists Sonia Leber & David Chesworth to discuss ‘Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth’, a major mid-career survey of the cinematic 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.

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.

Curators: Naomi Cass, Pippa Milne and Madé Spencer-Castle.

Exhibition Dates: 7 March – 27 April 2019.

Image: Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, ‘Geography Becomes Territory Becomes’, 2018. 8-channel HD video installation, non-sync playback, 14:00 minutes. Courtesy of the artists.

Commissioned by Centre for Contemporary Photography for Architecture Makes Us, the project was supported by an Australia Council residency at Helsinki International Artist Program, and a NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.