Zara Sigglekow - FUTURES GallerySugar Syrup House
Whilst viewing the VCA graduate exhibition, I started thinking of a fictional house, something in between a dollhouse and a suburban family home with a barren garden, and the artworks I have selected inhabiting this structure. And I thought of the character of the ‘Girl’ and ‘Girlhood’ as a real and imagined state, played out in real life and churned on the internet through the circulation of performative imagery. This house is a space of whimsey, delight, horror, delicacy and youth (how could we avoid youth at a grad show!). Within the ‘Girl’ there is a mix of sincerity and irony that is hard to distinguish. Sweetness so sickly it becomes abject. The abject made pretty.
Zara Sigglekow is a gallerist and sometimes writer from Aotearoa. She co-founded and is the Director of FUTURES, a commercial art gallery in uptown Collingwood, Narrm.
Georgia Naughton, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Hannah Barry, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Sophie Tanner, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Lana Knezevic, Install View, Image Courtesy of the University of Melbourne
Michelle Yuan Fitz-Gerald, Install View. Image Courtesy the artist,
Yixuan Zhao, Install View. Image courtesy of the artist.
Al Murdoch, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Ziyi Wei, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Jacinta Maude, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Tomas Ording-Jespersen, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Grace Murphy, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
James Brett. Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Lachlan Stonehouse, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Casey Nicholls-Bull, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Ponie Curtis, Install View. Image Courtesy: University of Melbourne.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne