Justene Williams, Moonwalking Mumma, 2024. Closed cell foam, aluminium rod, fibreglass and spray putty, 220 x 80 x 250cm. Courtesy: the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Justene Williams‘ solo exhibition I Am Your Receptor You Are My Transmitter features a series of futuristic transmorphic figures based on the representation of women. A key figure in the Australian art world since the 1990s, Williams is known for large-scale works, video performances, sculptures and installations that confront us with parody and the absurdities of mime, recollection and identity.

Often inspired by the lyrical vocabularies of Dada and the radicalism of the 20th Century Avant-Garde, the artist rewrites our collective history by layering existing artworks, salvaged objects and materials, as a process of reclamation, renewal and rebirth, into new environments. For this exhibition, Williams has reformed conceptual elements of Futurist, Umberto Boccioni’s iconic 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, into robust figures of varying scales­–large, mechanical, languid and looming–in presence.

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