Wilderness Tasks.

Fernando Sanchez Castillo (Spain) — Jess Day (Aus) — Todd McMillan (Aus) — Alex Monteith (New Zealand) — Andrew and David Wood (Aus)

Wilderness Tasks is an exhibition exploring the tradition of landscape. The international and Australian artists in Wilderness Tasks traverse deserts, seas, and mountains in order to critique archetypal representations of landscape in art history and in modern culture.

Our relationship with the landscape is highly mediated - distorted through representation, be it via a painting, a lens, the windscreen, or the monitor. This process often renders it romanticised, idealised, diminished, or flattened. Wilderness Tasks explores this situation, setting traditional concepts against the modern notions of personal freedom, artistic expression, and political action.

Curated by Emma Buswell, Wilderness Tasks presents non-narrative video, sculpture, and performative artwork attempting to find a new middle ground.