Desire Lines - (a path taken informally over a set route)

Pia Larsen

23 March - 11 may

Desire Lines – (a path taken informally over a set route) is a solo exhibition by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Pia Larsen exploring colour and space and the politics of the female gendered body. Vivid impressions in colour, of a female breast, with its signature topology of whorls and cross-strata lines, evoke a poetics of the body in tension with the constraints of culture.

The matrix for the images doubles as an LP playing on the Mammaphone. A scratchy stylus catching in the grooves signifying the myriad glitches between gender presumptions and lived experience. A black and white photograph hangs alongside featuring a *Guerrilla -masked woman bearing the zinc LP, eternal vigilance guiding her way. 

Pia Larsen is a Sydney based artist who lives and works on unceded Gadigal land in the NSW region of Australia interested in the connections and tensions between people and place and language and history. Projects utilise images, objects, and installation, primarily in print, photography and drawing with a focus on exploring text, form, colour and space.

Events + Dates:

Artist talk: 2-3pm, Saturday 23 March:

Pia Larsen will present an artist talk from 2pm - 3pm, Saturday 23 March in the Megalo gallery to discuss the ideas and processes behind her new work. This is a free event, no bookings required.

Opening: 3-4pm, Saturday 23 March

Following the artist talk, join us from 3pm - 4pm, as we celebrate the opening of Desire Lines - (a path taken informally over a set route).

In conversation: 11am-12pm, Saturday 27 April

Please join us for an upcoming panel discussion between Pia Larsen, Dr Deidre Brollo and Clare Jackson, moderated by Stephen Payne, as the artists discuss the ideas behind Larsen's current exhibition Desire Lines - (a path taken informally over a set route).  This is a free event, no bookings required. 

Pia Larsen is an artist and educator. Her interdisciplinary practice engages with the politics and poetic forms of language and representation using print, text, photography and drawing.

Dr Deidre Brollo is an artist, writer and educator. Her interdisciplinary practice draws strongly on print culture and its inherent ideas: the logic of the archive, the transmission of narrative, and the notion of exchange.

Clare Jackson is an artist and printmaker. Her practice incorporates found images that she re- interprets through drawing and printmaking as reminders of the way we select images that resonate from our daily lives.

Stephen Payne is the CEO and Artistic Director of Megalo Print Studio, with a curatorial practice in print media and community cultural development working across regional NSW, Victoria and the ACT.

Desire lines - (a path taken informally over a set route) is on display 23 March - 11 May

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