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MUMA presents exhibitions of contemporary art by Australian and international artists. Focusing on curatorial research and commissioning, the program includes significant solo artist projects, thematic responses to current issues and exhibitions that contribute to shaping the recent history of art.

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MUMA Education engages students and teachers through tailored programs drawing on current exhibitions and the Monash University Collection. Trained educators and artists connect students to art in meaningful ways, promoting creative thinking and critical problem-solving skills. MUMA acknowledges the diversity of all children and provides a child safe environment.

Siri Hayes

Blush 2017
giclee print
Monash University Collection, Melbourne
Purchased by the Monash Business School, 2017

The mechanised photographic process converts observation into participation, mediating an open-ended language of image perception. Blush is a screen-grab of an Instagram image forever suspended in its loading format. It is part of the artist’s Loading series, in which images of contemporary paintings are blurred to prolong their contemplative moment. Siri deliberately turns the familiar, everyday social media platform into an experiential space, shifting the screen-environment into an interrelated exteriority and prompting the viewer to project their own store of daily snaps or imagine they are privy to the artist’s personal archive. Both the algorithmic process of image extraction and the photographic process of light transference involve observations of their indexical relationships. Building upon the visual language of social networking, Blush expresses image circulation as clusterings of social phenomena. Alluding to their transmission, Siri raises the question: how do networked images blur the relationship between seeing and being?

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