Rachelle Koumouris, Silly monkey, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo.

This exhibition introduces 7 early career artists whose experimental, materially complex artworks reveal new languages, sensations and attitudes.

These artists resist dominant representational forms. Their embodied gestures in sculpture, moving image and sound are urgent propositions for living differently in the world. Anti-mirroring characterises the way the artists champion and proliferate ethical and material forces to make way for new spaces, realities and subjects. Coming from places of desire and independence, the works neither conform to, nor report back on any particular parameter. They are neither supplements nor deficiencies.

Bodies are manifested in I wanna be your anti-mirror, transcending fixed subjects through a myriad of forms. As tech culture, wax and foodstuffs, as secondary or double subjects, as artifice, they propel forward, even if interrupted.

Featured artists include Hugo Blomley, Christina May Carey, Georgina de Manning, Erin Hallyburton, Ashika Harper, Rachelle Koumouris, and Zeïna Thiboult. This exhibition was curated by guest curator Alicia Frankovich.