Curator: Geraldine Barlow
The first major survey of the artist's work, Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye interrogates the politics of difference and, closely entwined, the implications of 'the gaze'. Eye to eye, across land and cultures, Andrew explores the promising and yet fractured grounds of our contemporary intercultural engagement. Reflecting equally on global mass media and traditional grass-roots aesthetics, the artist asks us to consider the construction of history and power, identity and invisibility; in black, white and many shades of grey.
Covering the scope of the artist's practice over the past decade this exhibition encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and neon installations. Deftly connecting aesthetics and polemics, Andrew creates striking and insightful works which neatly encapsulate complex conceptual and theoretical questions which emerge from lived experience.
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand
26 June - 19 July 2009
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
7 November - 6 December 2008
Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines
24 July - 30 August 2008
The John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
4 April - 30 May 2008
Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest
18 August - 14 October 2007
Monash University Museum of Art
4 April - 23 June 2007
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