Julie Rrap will talk about her new exhibition Remaking the World. this Friday 31st July, 1 – 1.30pm, at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.

All welcome. Free talk.

Julie Rrap, Remaking the World #1, 2015, digital print. Courtesy the artist, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

About the Exhibition

Julie Rrap has been working across painting, photography, sculpture and video since the 1970s. Her art often focuses on the naked human form and examines the ways in which the human body is perceived and represented in the history of Western art. Her work uses humour and a sense of irony to encourage the viewer’s to engage with themes such as gender, fetish, sexuality and death. Julie Rrap: Remaking the World at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, examines the creative process and the notion of the artist as genius. In the exhibition Rrap has used the architecture of the museum to create two spaces analogous to the two spheres or ‘worlds’ of the brain. One gallery, Remaking the World: artists’ dreaming is an ‘asleep’ world, wheretwenty suspended screens show artists sleeping. In the second gallery, Remaking the World: in her image, is the ‘awake’ world where Rrap is the central protagonist who rebuilds the world with her body. Aluminium sculptures of the artist’s hands, scattered throughout the exhibition space, perform playful vernacular gestures, such as whistling, peeping and pointing. A series of large scale colour photographs show confetti-like pieces of Rrap’s own body streaming from her lips.