Exhibition | Sitelines – Natatsha Johns-Messenger | Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art Image Reference Sheet Natasha Johns-Messenger Alterview 2013tinted glass, stainless steel 304 x 488 cm Hunters Point High School/ Intermediate School 404, New York  Commissioned by Percent for Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with SCA and Fxfowle architects

Natasha Johns-Messenger Alterview 2013tinted glass, stainless steel 304 x 488 cm Hunters Point High School/ Intermediate School 404, New York Commissioned by Percent for Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with SCA and Fxfowle architects

Sitelines presents new installations, photographs and light-works by Natasha Johns-Messenger, an artist from Melbourne now based in New York, whose art explores the gap between knowledge and perception. A starting point for her work came from her discovering that the stars we see in the night sky may no longer exist. She tries to replicate this sense of wonder by creating spatial and viewing experiences that make us question what is real and what is not.

Johns-Messenger achieves this by blurring the divisions between her work and the exhibition site itself. Her works extend the architectural features of the Heide galleries, and emphasise the existing relationship between the museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces. Several installations use mirrors in a disorienting way that expands our awareness of where we are – we need to pay close attention to our surroundings rather than relying on automatic memory or logic. They act like periscopes or camera lenses that frame Heide’s garden views. A series of photographs and a film delve into subtler layers of seeing, by uncovering colours, shapes and lines present in the Heide landscape, sometimes at a microscopic scale.

Exhibition Dates: 25 June – 25 September, 2016

Curator: Linda Michael

Location: Heide II, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105. Ph: (03) 9850 1500

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm, Public holidays, 10am-5pm. Cost (includes entrance to other Heide galleries) $18/$14, Children under 12 and Members – Free.

Website: https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/sitelines-natasha-johns-messenger

 

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