![Image: Gillian Wearing, [Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper], 2015. © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rock-n-Roll-70-wallpaper-2015-©-Gillian-Wearing-courtesy-Maureen-Paley-London-Tanya-Bonakdar-Gallery-New-York-and-Regen-Projects-Los-Angele-200x176.jpg "Rock 'n' Roll 70 wallpaper, 2015 © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angele")
Late viewing: Sanja Pahoki
29 April 2022
![Image: Sanja Pahoki, [The Fall], 2021.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The_Fall_2021_SanjaPahoki-200x90.jpg "The_Fall_2021_SanjaPahoki")
Image: Sanja Pahoki, The Fall, 2021.
Image: Sanja Pahoki, The Fall, 2021.
When
29 April 2022
Friday, 5-8pm (AEST)
Region
Parliament Precinct
Venue
Themes
Mortality
Society
Price
Free, bookings required
Join us for a special evening viewing of Sanja Pahoki’s exhibition A Detail Which Catches the Eye.
The work of Croatian-born, Melbourne based Sanja Pahoki continually hovers between melancholy and angst. Existential issues such as the nature of self and the role of anxiety are recurring themes, while individual works constitute elements of a larger self-portrait, documenting and archiving Pahoki’s relationship to those important to her—most particularly her family. She embraces the sentimental as well as the domestic in her practice, however, as the autobiographical is the initial inspiration for much work, Pahoki often engages humour or ambivalence as a strategy to direct attention away from the personal and toward shared universal concerns.
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Artist
Sanja Pahoki (AU)
Born Osijek, Croatia
Lives and works Melbourne, AustraliaSanja Pahoki uses photography, video, neon and text to explore observations from everyday life. Existential issues such as the nature of self, identity and the role of anxiety are recurring themes in her work. As the autobiographical is the initial inspiration for much of Sanja’s work, humour is often employed as a strategy to direct attention away from the personal to shared universal concerns. In 2018, Sanja was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University. Pahoki’s artwork has been exhibited both nationally (ACCA @ Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney) and internationally (Brussels, Japan, Shanghai, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Rotterdam). Pahoki is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.
![Image: Warwick Thornton, [Meth Kelly] (video still), 2020. High definition 4K digital video, colour, stereo sound
4 minutes 4 seconds. Commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney 2020: NIRIN. Warwick Thornton. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/web-size-Warwick-Thornton-Meth-Kelly-still-200x111.jpg "Image: Warwick Thornton, Meth Kelly (video still), 2020. High definition 4K digital video, colour, stereo sound 4 minutes 4 seconds. Commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney 2020: NIRIN. Warwick Thornton. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.")
![Image: Honey Long & Prue Stent, [Vellum], 2021. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vellum-200x133.jpg "Vellum")
![Image: Arini Byng, [Remember what you heard when you weren't even listening] (video still), 2019–21. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/HERO-RememberwhatyouheardwhenyouwerentevenlisteningStillAriniByng1-200x106.jpg "HERO - RememberwhatyouheardwhenyouwerentevenlisteningStillAriniByng1")
![Image: Danie Mellor, [The spectre], 2021. Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DanieMellor_The_spectre2021-175x200.jpg "DanieMellor_The_spectre2021")