All the years/lost & found (as if snow, melting)
The exhibition investigates familial/childhood ties to the Adelaide Central Market and incorporates ideas of memory, parenting, loss and reparation. Poetic responses through sculpture and installation respond also, to the site of FELTspace gallery.
The exhibition draws on my very early memory of visiting the (East End) markets as a child with my (Italian migrant) father before dawn, to procure supplies for his fruit and vegetable store and the subsequent importance markets hold for my family, over many generations.
This new body of work- utilising materials both familair and new- has been developed during and is the outcome of, an 11-month Residency at George Street Studios, funded by the Adelaide Fringe.
The exhibition includes an artist talk to the public (Sat 11th Feb) and catalogue.
Image credit: Sam Roberts
Presented by: Sonja Porcaro
Sonja Porcaro is a mid-career artist based in Adelaide /Tarntanya, working predominantly in sculpture and installation. Porcaro uses everyday objects and humble materials to create restrained and poetic works, often investigating notions of memory, uncertainty and the fluidity of language, representation and meaning. Porcaro has exhibited in spaces such as Artspace and The Performance Space, (NSW), the Australian Centre for Photography (Vic), the Art Gallery of South Australia and Australian Experimental Art Foundation (SA). She has undertaken residencies locally, nationally and internationally, including a 3-month Australia Council Milan Studio Residency. Porcaro's work has been collected by the Art Gallery of South Australia, the College of Fine Art, NSW and is in private collections.