Love in Bright Landscapes, a group exhibition curated by Annika Kristensen, is on at PICA, Perth, running July 30 to October 10.
Featuring artists that have lived or worked in either Los Angeles or Perth, Western Australia, the exhibition draws resemblances between these two coastal cities, as a means to extrapolate the sense of place and cultural mythologies that surround each. With 14 artists including Laure Prouvost, Martine Syms, George Egerton-Warburton, Teelah George, Jack Ball, Carmen Argote and more, the show draws inspiration from past literary and cultural responses to the cities, such as Joan Didion‘s writing on LA, or The Triffids music inspired by Perth, from which the exhibition title is drawn.
Love in Bright Landscapes also hosts an online catalogue of audio and written responses, including from AQNB editor Steph Kretowicz and Ben Babbitt. As stated in Kristensen’s curatorial text: “Frontier cities, bordered to the west by ocean, and separated from the east by desert, mountains and plains, both have a sense of freedom and of being self-contained, yet also remote and isolated.”**
