to look and to wonder

Talia Smith and Kylie Spear with Thomas Kidd

10 - 21 April 2019

Wreckers Artspace

The word mirage comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer's location.

Working at the cross-section between memory, truth and fiction, artists Kylie Spear and Talia Smith reimagine time and place, and utilise visual, auditory and experiential aids to construct new shared realities.

Together, these artists respond to the place of Brisbane, and elsewhere, through a lens of personal experience and perception to be developed as an shared experience with the viewer.

This exhibition took place on the unceded lands of the Turrbul and Yuggera Peoples.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the land of Meanjin, the traditional custodians of that land, the Turrbul and Yuggera peoples, on which this project took place.

Check out Talia Smith

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Thanks to:

Talia Smith, exhibiting artist

Kylie Spear and Thomas Kidd, exhibiting collaborators

Wreckers Artspace 2019 directorship of Anya Swan, Hailey Atkins & Sarah Poulgrain

BEAUT Team: Alexander Kucharski, Bridie Gillman, Aishla Manning, Naomi O’Reilly, Remi Roehrs and Georgia Walsh.

Images: Bridie Gillman