Agatha Gothe-Snape and Wrong Solo
Certain Situations
29 June–31 August 201929 Jun–31 Aug 2019
#CertainSituations
This four-gallery solo exhibition by Agatha Gothe-Snape and Wrong Solo features new and newly reimagined artworks spanning video, binaural sound, sculpture, poetry, performance, drawing, and installation. A series of psychic spaces provide an apparatus for processing fragmentary encounters, movements, feelings, and states of consciousness. Ordinary situations and chance-based chains of events are methodically worked through, allowing meaning—however tenuous—to be extracted from the layers of disguise found in dreams, language, and other symbolic conventions. What might otherwise be viewed as inadvertent becomes significant. This sense of equivalency is not just a strategy for flattening or reordering established hierarchies, but for understanding and examining lesser known situations, objects, people, places, and histories.
The exhibition centres around Five Columns, a five-channel video installation by Wrong Solo—Gothe-Snape’s longstanding collaboration with performance artist Brian Fuata. This new work is supported by the IMA in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), and is accompanied by a series of performative, social, and spatial interventions into the gallery.
Agatha Gothe-Snape is represented by The Commercial, Sydney. Five Columns by Wrong Solo is supported by the IMA in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and Australia Council for the Arts.
Agatha Gothe-Snape is based in Sydney. Solo exhibitions include OH WINDOW, MAM Project 23, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, (2017); Rhetorical Chorus, Performance Space, Sydney (2017), and Performa, New York (2015); Inexhaustible Present, AGNSW, Sydney (2013); Late Sculpture, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney (2013); and You and everything that is not you, The Physics Room, Christchurch (2013). Her work has been included in group exhibitions internationally and nationally, including the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2018); Tarrawarra Biennale (2018); Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); The National: New Australian Art, AGNSW, Carriageworks, and MCA Australia, Sydney (2017); 20th Biennale of Sydney, various locations (2016); Framed Movements, ACCA, Melbourne (2014); Art as a Verb, MUMA, Melbourne (2014); 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2014); and Melbourne Now, NGV, Melbourne (2013).
Agatha Gothe-Snape is represented by The Commercial, Sydney.
Wrong Solo is the collaboration of Brian Fuata and Agatha Gothe-Snape. They have exhibited and performed internationally at the Gwangju Biennale (2018), and Performa, New York (2015); and nationally at Gertrude Contemporary (2017), Horsham Regional Gallery (2017), Tarrawarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, Tarrawarra Museum of Art (2016), The Museum of Contemporary Art (2010), and Campbelltown Arts Centre (2009). They have also performed in lecture theatres, domestic spaces, and skate parks.
Wrong Solo is the collaboration of Brian Fuata and Agatha Gothe-Snape. They have exhibited and performed internationally at the Gwangju Biennale (2018), and Performa, New York (2015); and nationally at Gertrude Contemporary (2017), Horsham Regional Gallery (2017), Tarrawarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, Tarrawarra Museum of Art (2016), The Museum of Contemporary Art (2010), and Campbelltown Arts Centre (2009). They have also performed in lecture theatres, domestic spaces, and skate parks.
Video
Agatha Gothe-Snape, documentation of rehearsal of The Five Unknowables (Dialogue Version), recorded 20th June 2019, performed by Brian Fuata and Agatha Gothe-Snape, sound design and composition by Alex White, as part of Certain Situations, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2019. Video by Alex White.
