Courtesy: the artist and Haydens, Melbourne.

Interior at Haydens presents a new series of eight works by Aotearoa New Zealand based artist Tim Wagg. In this exhibition, medium format photographs are framed within a silhouette, conveying Wagg’s interest in how domestic spaces come to reflect various aspects of time, place, and the aspirations of those who occupy them.

Following on from previous works such as 1991 (2016) and Youth Portrait (2022), which profile real people as a way of defining the conditions we now live in, Interior considers the spaces we have created in response to these. In combining the historic genres of interior painting and silhouette, Wagg offers a visual simplification that complicates our relationship to spaces which would otherwise be easily read, inviting a greater sense of mystery, desire, and estrangement.

Opening Event: Saturday 19 August, 5 – 8pm.

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