Artist
Alex Walker

www.alexwalker.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/alex__walker__/

Upcoming solo exhibition The Image Unfolds at Seventh Gallery, 21 Easey St, Collingwood

Opening event:  Wed 28th April 6-8pm

Exhibition dates: 29 April - 22 May

The Image Unfolds explores the ability of architecture and projected image to work in symbiosis, forming a reflexive relationship: from three dimensional space, a two dimensional image is captured, only to become three dimensional again as projected light, wrapping and warping with the architecture of the gallery space. Images locomote to momentarily align with architectural elements and interlace with their bisected counterparts, embodying a poetic repetition of loss and longing.


Other interventions encourage a particular way of seeing which highlights architectural features and phenomenological encounters with the space itself. In The Image Unfolds, architecture becomes a lens through which to view the world, much like the eye of a camera which is directed by bodily movement. Images become expanded and unfixed: gallery windows crop their contents visually, shifting and changing as you adjust positions, the plane of a wall is also an image, four walls can become a frame if you look hard enough; then the image will unfold.


This exhibition is supported by the Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program.  The Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program is currently supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation.

Alex Walker is a practicing artist and writer working primarily with photography, installation and unfixed images to create work which stimulates spatial perception and memory in response to architectural elements present within the gallery and beyond. She completed her BFA & Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts and holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

“I took these images in 2016 when exploring the phenomenological qualities of glass. As a material it can reflect, refract and reveal different perspectives simultaneously; much like how recalling a memory imposes a lens on the present moment. I am interested in the perceptual aspects of collapsing space both literally and metaphorically.

These works marked the shift in my practice from exhibiting two dimensional images alone to presenting them in three dimensions, and becoming architectural installations. I've always considered these 'sketches' or 'working images' for my more recent thinking, but during lockdown I have done a lot of reflecting and believe these works mark an important turning point in my practice and deserve to be seen.”