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Ly Hoang Ly, Hope - Memory Tree, 2019 // Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery | Strength found in a network of memory and perseverance. The collective presentation of all the aspects of Hoang Ly’s ‘protest installation’ or ‘guerilla public art work’ reminds me of Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs. Here we are presented with the layers of activity, absence and interaction created when approximately 300 magnificent old trees in Ho Chi Minh City were cut down. If one trace doesn’t move you, surely another will. Moving your fingers through some salvaged sawdust, witnessing the wood chipper destroy branches, contemplating spending time with trees in your life, seeing a local respond with joy to Hoang Ly’s Hope-memory tree. Together they give the trace of the destroyed trees a strength in otherwise soft memories, mimicking the strength and resilience of the trees in their life. | @mase_windu

Louiseann King, solis, 2018 // Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat | If I wrote an essay about this art work it would be called 'Colonial White Australian Femininity: idleness and ephemerality'. King has responded to a number of colonial Australian artworks in the Art Gallery of Ballarat's collection to create this wonderful installation. These artworks, curated specially around this room, are reflected, refracted and captured by her objects, including polished wooden pedestals, cast bronze birds, pressed flowers, crocheted Australia emblems and glass cloches. This response itself spawns another thousand responses that bounce off eachother and pull me in numerous different directions. In viewing it I felt inspired to think and talk and discuss and engage. A worthy attribute for any artwork. | @mase_windu

Daniel Von Strurmer, Cataract, 2018 // Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne | This work is incredibly important and vivid for me. While I was in the gallery I made some notes on my phone and I thought I would just list them here as my thoughts about the work: A way to make screens unfamiliar to us again. To regain a sense of novelty, awe or interest when normally our eye would just glance over any screens that cross our path. Arresting in its visual approach and it's visible construction. Celebrating the everyday and the mundane. As the real world filtered through our phones. Overwhelming positive. Pro technology, pro smart phones, pro progress. It position mediated images as our reality, acknowledging how much of our reality is experience through video and screen, is at once an ode to this contemporary condition and a call to awareness and consideration of it. Is the mediation and the screen making these moments more beautiful and interesting? Yes! Cataract in the circles and the vibrations captured in the videos but also in the flickering movement of your eye as you are draw to certain visuals across the wall. Suddenly you see three four or five of the same visual at once and then it is gone and your eye is left once again searching over all of the new information. | @mase_windu

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