Passage: Spatial Interventions

About the exhibition
Passage: Spatial Interventions presented new spatial works by four emerging Australian artists, each created in response to the cultural framework of the museum.

As curator Natalie King writes in the exhibition catalogue: ‘The notion of the museum space as vitrine, a classifier and a structure for remembering is investigated as the works in the exhibition attempt to unveil the ways in which the exhibition space frames, envelops and limits the museum’s desire to classify.’

Inspired by architecture and the built environment, Callum Morton recreated a suburban balcony—a familiar architectural motif that, placed within the confines of the gallery, unsettles the threshold between exterior and interior, public and private. Deborah Ostrow, known for her engagement with everyday life and popular culture, presented a lively display of five flower arrangements positioned on shelves along the gallery wall—a gesture that evoked both celebratory and funerary associations. In contrast, sculptural works by Helga Groves and Gary Wilson reassigned the use-value of industrial materials such as Perspex (Groves) and PVC piping (Wilson).

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was part of the Next Wave Festival's 1994 Visual Arts Program.

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^{Image: Callum Morton, Liminal No. 1 1994, cement, glass, steel and synthetic polymer paint, 105 x 65 x 35 cm. Collection of the artist. Photo: Richard Crompton}