![Image: Abigail Varney, [Ocean Purge], 2020. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Oculi_AbigailVarney_OceanPurge-200x143.jpeg "Oculi_AbigailVarney_OceanPurge")
Talk: ACTS I-VII Guided Artist Tour
15 May 2022
![Image: James Bugg, {The Bend], 2022. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Oculi_JamesBugg_TheBend-160x200.jpeg "Oculi_JamesBugg_TheBend")
Image: James Bugg, {The Bend, 2022. Courtesy the artist.
Image: James Bugg, {The Bend, 2022. Courtesy the artist.
When
15 May 2022
Sunday, 11am (AEST)
Region
Regional
Venue
Benalla Art Gallery [i]
Botanical Gardens, Bridge Street, Benalla
Daily, 10am - 4.30pm
Closed Tuesdays
Themes
Mortality
Self
Society
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Price
Free, bookings required
Join Benalla Art Gallery and Oculi collective for a Guided Tour of the exhibition ACTS I-VII.
A visual meditation on seven modes of being, the expansive exhibition has been conceived by members of the collective in conversation with curator Natasha Christia and as a reformulation of the Seven Year Life Stages (a theory of human development by philosopher Rudolph Steiner).
Exhibiting Oculi photographers will guide visitors through the exhibition’s seven Acts, each a universal state of being (and its binary) lying at the heart of contemporary existence. Artists will discuss the broad conceptual framework of the exhibition and how this was approached as a collective and as an individual photographer. Visitors will enjoy intimate insights into specific works selected or shot in response to each Act, direct from the artists.
![Image: Naomi Hobson, from the series [Adolescent Wonderland], 2022](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Fantasic-3-e1645577761331-200x133.jpg "Fantasic 3")