Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (AU)

Long time no see

29 April 2022 - 25 May 2022
Image: Benjamin Prabowo Sexton, from the series [Long time no see], 2021.
Courtesy the artist and Daine Singer.

Image: Benjamin Prabowo Sexton, from the series Long time no see, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Daine Singer.

When

29 April 2022 - 25 May 2022

Venue

Cathedral Cabinet [i]
Ground floor of the Nicholas Building
9/37 Swanston St, Melbourne
24 hrs

Theme

Society

Accessibility

Wheelchair access

Price

Free

In Long time no see, Benjamin Prabowo Sexton exhibits a family portrait displayed in a glass vitrine facing the Nicholas Building arcade. The site-specific work considers how private photographs are experienced in a public context. Sexton’s photograph exists in its own realm of gestation, latent until activated by viewers passing by. Its experience depends on a certain set of circumstances to align so as to precipitate change. For Sexton, this gestational period mimics the familial—how its unit has the capacity to give birth to many different forms and co-exist harmoniously.

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Curator

  • Lucy Foster (AU)

    Lucy Foster is a lens-based artist working across photography, video and installation. Her process engages with assemblage through the use of found items, image archives and text. Foster’s practice is conceptually driven by experiences of loss and considers the ways in which technologies shape our understanding of it. Foster graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography, 2016) and Honours (2018) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Naarm (Melbourne). She frequently exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions both locally and internationally.

Artists

Founding Partners
  • Bowness Family Foundation
  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Major Government Partners
  • City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program
Major Partners
  • Maddocks

PHOTO Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we work and live, and the rich and diverse Indigenous cultures across what is now called Australia. For over 60,000 years, Indigenous arts and culture have thrived on this sacred land, and we honour Elders and cultural leaders past and present. This was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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