Brodie Kokkinos, Skimming Surfaces, 2024. Courtesy of MARS and the artist.

Brodie Kokkinos is a conceptual artist whose practice spans across video, photography, sculpture, installation and performance. Motivated by the haunting power of visual culture Kokkinos explores ways to visually reimagine the slippery seductive power of such popular imagery in alternative timelines and circumstances.

Skimming Surfaces is a spatialised exhibition conjoining two floors of MARS Gallery. The exhibition features a photographic installation on the mezzanine level and a large-scale moving image work in the black box room of the basement.

In Skimming Surfaces, Kokkinos combines methods of photography, performance, and installation to generate slippage behind the controlled aesthetic surface of commercial portraiture. Working with her own image, this project marks a new direction of conceptual inquiry for the artist’s ongoing investigation into the malevolent forces within image-making systems like advertising, film, cinema, and contemporary art.

Opening event: Saturday 15 February, 5-7pm.