A new exhibition I’m showing in at the Macquarie University Art Gallery;
Dates: From Thursday 24 September to Wednesday 11 November 2009
Drew Bickford
Stephen Birch
Andrew Browne
Penny Byrne
Matt Coyle
Mark Davis
Christopher Hanrahan
Louise Hearman
Sam Leach
Alasdair Macintyre
VR Morrison
Alex Proyas
Scanner
Darren Sylvester
Tim Silver
Jelena Telencki
Monika Tichacek
Pete Volich
Horror, Come Darkness explores the genre of horror as an emotional state for its encapsulating effects of fear, suspense and the irrational – where the manifestation of darkness can transform reality into the threatening, the unfamiliar, the unknown and the unknowable. Tormented creatures, monsters, spectral beings, the living dead camouflaged within nocturnal landscapes all recall an indeterminate evil that looms just under the surface of existence.
Horror, Come Darkness will feature contemporary artists using cinematic effects, literary sources and technological visualisation, painting, stills, installation, and video and sound devices, for effecting the simulation of horror.
Linked to popular culture, horror has become – for many – the ultimate adrenalin rush. Inducing mind-altering states, the spectacle of horror manifests itself as a means of escapism from the everyday.
Horror, Come Darkness will create a psychological drama with a number of works that encompass theatrical atmospheric lighting and sound effects – a world inhabited by the detritus, lonely bushland, marshes, tunnels, chambers, isolated highways, graveyards, abandoned buildings, immersing the spectator from within.
