Black Intentions, Susan Cohn
National Gallery of Victoria

Installation produced in collaboration with the artist Susan Cohn

This exhibition has been developed by Cohn to coincide with the simultaneous display of the travelling retrospective from the National Gallery of Australia. Of the exhibition the artist has said Black Intentions is essentially a work about personal identity and value, building on a set of generating ideas. As suggested by the title, this work investigates the notion of blackness, in a literal sense referring to Melbourne Black, and also in an emotional sense, in terms of the wicked, the sinister and the erotic, shadows and beauty. The work also has elements of the minimalist constraint, production/reproduction, a game, for example circles as quoits and finally, a closing of the circle (in relationship to the accompanying survey exhibition).

Installation produced in collaboration with Susan Cohn as Exhibition Designer at the National Gallery of Victoria