Kim Demuth, *1968, lives in Brisbane, Australia
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In the ‘mirrored worlds’ of Kim Demuth (*1968, lives in Brisbane, Australia), illusions meet possible and perceived reality. Picture-events reside between apocalypse and fiction and await immediate interpretation by the viewer to tell their real story. At the exhibition, Kim Demuth shows two photo works – ‘Canossa 24-07-2011’ and ‘Wesley 19-06-2011’. He says that “each image harks back to the time I spent in the hospital wards where my mother was first diagnosed with terminal cancer and eventually returned to spend her last days. The pictures are optically penetrating the gallery space like doorways or steps into another time and space.......”
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Kim Demuth, Wesley 19-06-2011
In the ‘mirrored worlds’ of Kim Demuth (*1968, lives in Brisbane, Australia), illusions meet possible and perceived reality. Picture-events reside between apocalypse and fiction and await immediate interpretation by the viewer to tell their real story. At the exhibition, Kim Demuth shows two photo works – ‘Canossa 24-07-2011’ and ‘Wesley 19-06-2011’. He says that “each image harks back to the time I spent in the hospital wards where my mother was first diagnosed with terminal cancer and eventually returned to spend her last days. The pictures are optically penetrating the gallery space like doorways or steps into another time and space.......”
Kim Demuth, Canossa 24.07.2011
In den „Spiegelwelten“ von Kim Demuth (*1968, lebt in Brisbane, Australien) treffen sich Illusion, mögliche Realität und vermeintliche Realität. Bildereignisse, die zwischen Apokalypse und Fiktion angesiedelt sind, erwarten die unmittelbare Interpretation durch den Betrachter, um ihre eigentliche Geschichte zu erzählen.
In der Ausstellung zeigt Kim Demuth zwei Fotoarbeiten – ‘Canossa 24-07-2011’ and ‘Wesley 19-06-2011’. Er sagt:
Each image harks back to the time I spent in the hospital wards where my mother was first diagnosed with terminal cancer and eventually returned to spend her last days. They are optically penetrating the gallery space like doorways or steps into another time and space. Each is a frozen moment, static, and a gesture to cease time, the time that eventually takes us all. I guess you could say they are much about the nature of photographs' ability to 'turn around' time into itself, and in this case, quite self consciously.
As you may have noticed, I (unlike most hi-def obsessive photographers today) tend to favour a more deteriorated impression of subject matter, one that alludes to the failing of memory and echoes the desperate recall of it within our heads. My mother also suffered from dementia.
Much like the relationship we have with our memories, these works are flat yet optically offer depth so they oscillate between drawing the viewer in from a visual distance and pushing away as they blur and flatten out the closer their proximity is. For me,memories and dreams seem to shift in a similar way, both appearing and fading - it is impossible to fully possess them.
Kim Demuth
KIM DEMUTH - Curriculum Vitae
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Representation Jan Manton Art (www.janmantonart.com)
beam contemporary (www.beamcontemporary.com.au)
EDUCATION:
1999 B.A. - HONOURS (VISUAL ARTS) First Class Honours QUT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS FROM 2003:
2010 Camino, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2010 Second Hand Pose: Portraits of the unknown, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2008 Time Date Space, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2006 Signs of Life, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
2004 4D, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
2004 Over and Out, The Farm, Brisbane City
2003 Perception Deception, GALLERY 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2003 Seeing You Seeing Me Seeing You, INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS FROM 2005:
2011 Photo LA, Los Angeles
2010 Public Sale, Kunst Pavilon, Munich
2010 Photo LA, Los Angeles
2010 Brave New World, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2010 Interactive Reactions, Glow32 Gallery/City Studios, Brisbane
2009 Synchronicity (Touring show 2009- 2010) Toowoomba Regional Gallery, QLD.
2009 She's a Tough Old Broad – A Social History of Metro Arts, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2009 LAUNCH Clayton UTZ Travelling Art Prize, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2009 Second Skin, Queensland Centre for Photography (launch of new premises), Brisbane
2008 Photo LA, Los Angeles
2008 Netzwork’s Changed Conditions Ahead, Jugglers Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2007 Topsy, Metro Arts
2006 Top Ten, Gadens Law Firm, Brisbane
2006 High Light, Ipswich Art Gallery
2005 High Light, BLINSIDE GALLERY, Melbourne
2005 Art, Design & Craft Biennial, Brisbane City Hall
2005 Journey, the block, QUT, Brisbane
SELECTED PUBLIC ARTWORKS, GRANTS AND AWARDS FROM 2005:
2011 ROYAL BRISBANE WOMANS HOSPITAL Outbound Busway Public Artwork
2010 ARTS QUEENSLAND GRANT (Career Development )
2009 METRO ARTS (Permanent artwork commission)
2008 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY Artistic imagery for the theatre production of Manna
2008 QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES (Public Artwork for building extension, Brisbane)
2007 DURACK FIRE STATION (Public Artwork for new building)
2006 OLD MUSEUM (Public Artwork for refurbished building, Brisbane)
2005 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL GRANT (Barcelona Residency)
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE FROM 2007:
2010 LUCIDA, Review for Second Hand Pose: Portraits of the Unknown
2010 ART AND AUSTRALIA, Beam Contemporary
2010 GROUP CATALOGUE, Brave New World
2009 GROUP CATALOGUE,She's a Tough Old Broad – A Social History of Metro Arts
2009 GROUP CATALOGUE, LAUNCH Clayton UTZ Travelling Art Prize
2008 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Manna
2008 ART MONTHLY AUSTRALIA, Preview for Time Date Space
2008 ART AND AUSTRALIA, QLD Centre for Photography at the 17th Photo LA
2008 GROUP CATALOGUE, QLD Centre for Photography at the 17th Photo LA
2007 ARTLINK, Review for Topsy
2007 ALL ABOUT IDENTITY, Feature article Out of the Smoke
2007 MACHINE, email conversation Politics, history and Britneys Breakfast
COLLECTIONS:
ARTBANK
DARYL HEWSON PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
METRO ARTS, Brisbane, QLD
OLD MUSEUM OF BRISBANE
PAUL GREENAWAY (PAUL GREENWAY GALLERY - ADELAIDE)
QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES
BEAM CONTEMPORARY
VARIOUS PRIVATE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS
