Primavera & Us | Opening

Join us for the opening of the Primavera: Young Australian Artists and Us by Gillian Bencke. 

Primavera: Young Australian Artists, the MCA Australia’s annual exhibition for artists aged 35 years and under, presents work by six early-career artists who challenge society’s prescribed structures to deliver compelling alternatives to the status quo. Each artist, drawing on their lived experiences, reckons with the perils of history, education, culture and language to question authoritative structures and systems.

Gillian Bencke’s work re-imagines commonly collected items - ephemera, keepsakes, heirlooms from personal and institutional collections through a textile-based practice. Interested in how individuals and communities collect, preserve and exhibit artefacts, her work examines how we, as a society, define and reinforce culture and assign value and meaning to material objects.

The exhibitions will be opened by Primavera curator, Talia Smith.