Lina Buck - Embrace(s)
Exhibition
16 September - 31 October 2022
Embrace(s) was a sequence of photographic and moving image works developed using performance, landscape and set design. The work approached the ongoing need for physical interaction and inclusion, its importance and ever so shifting accessibility. Embrace(s) addressed elements of the interconnectedness of contemporary living through recorded performance.
Contingency Act #1; Balancing Ball on Board 2021,
still image, 3040 x 2240mm
Contingency Act #2; Balloon Balance 2021,
three still images, 2420 x 1220mm
(small billboards)
About the artist
Lina Buck’s practice explores the fast-paced transitional qualities of the present. Her work addresses both a personal and societal requisite for development; a state of impermanence, progression and the vulnerability of change. She utilises methods of performance to unpack and develop film and photographic works. Buck’s practice comments on the shifting of societal structures and experiences of the everyday.
Learn more about Embrace(s) by reading the exhibition notes(PDF, 228KB)
You can also learn more about Lina Buck's practice and her work by visiting her website.
Laneway Gallery is an outdoor exhibition space at Woods Street Art Space in Laverton. Part of the space’s overall annual programming, this is one of a series of commissioned displays by artists responding to social, historic, or environmental themes. To learn more about Laneway Gallery please visit here.
If you have questions about the work, please contact the Arts team at arts@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au