Patrícia Harsány, Stigma, Photography, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
GALLERY two | tempcontemp
IS YOUR CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BODY-POSITIVE?
SAT 03 JUN 4.00PM - FRI 30 JUN 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 03 JUN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
If Contemporary Jewellery is a body-site specific art form - then surely it has to have a stance on body positivity? So, ARE WE BODY POSITIVE? And what is our responsibility in this discussion?
TempContemp wants to know how the body relates to artists’ work and ideas: Do you consider it? How important is it? What are the choices, compromises, discoveries, and inventions you make to include (or reject) bodies in your practice?
Is Contemporary Jewellery sufficiently inclusive? Is Contemporary Jewellery unashamedly, or unconsciously choosy about the body that wears it?
If contemporary jewellery is about the body, why do we (TC included) instinctively model it on a blank wall or a square, usually white, plinth? If contemporary jewellery is about the body AND about being non-precious - why lock it away from the bodies behind glass and a paywall?
We’re asking jewellers, artists, makers, thinkers, dabblers, and also collectors and wearers to explore these and more ideas with us through whatever way they relate their thoughts: Jewellery, object, performance, installation, curation, and words.
For sales and enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
