Australia Now 2021: Bleached Gothic, Petrina Hicks' exhibition at the Australian Embassy

Published by Laurent de Sortiraparis · Published on April 18, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.
As part of the Australia Now event, which runs throughout 2021 and partly into 2022, the Australian Embassy is dedicating an exhibition to photographer Petrina Hicks, entitled Bleached Gothic, from June 14 until September 2021, at a date yet to be determined.

Women in all their diversity through the prism of photography... On the occasion ofAustralia Now, theAustralian Embassy invites art lovers to discover the latest exhibition by photographer Petrina Hicks, entitled Bleached Gothic, from June 14 to September 2021. A retrospective that brings together works produced between 2003 and 2019, conveying the ambiguity and complexity inherent in the female experience.

At a time when questions of gender and representation are more culturally relevant than ever, Petrina Hicks ' photographs interrogate the cultural and visual representation of women and children in contemporary society and throughout history.

Over the course of her fifteen-year career, the Sydney-based artist has built a solid reputation for large-scale, hyper-realistic photographs that subvert and disrupt the photographic language of portraiture. Petrina Hicks photographs children, animals and young women against simple backgrounds, frequently returning to the same models and motifs to define and refine her distinctive style.

Her photographs are distinguished by their duality. Pristine and benign at first glance, the works are tainted by a sense of the strange and surreal. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance is present in many of the photographer's works, rich in mythological and historical symbolism.

Practical information

Dates and Opening Time
Starts June 14, 2021

× Approximate opening times: to confirm opening times, please contact the establishment.

    Location

    4 Rue Jean Rey
    75015 Paris 15

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    Prices
    Free

    Official website
    france.celebrateaustralianow.com

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    Open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

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