PROJECT WITH PHOTOGRAPHER VITOR QUEIROZ & WRITER MARTA MAIA

What is the border of our perception? How wide is the frame?  We travel in hope to learn about another culture but what we discover is a culture within our own body, the limits of our perception. 

Eastern Thoughts was a multisensory installation comprised of images, sounds and words that explored our capacity to engage with and understand the ‘Other’. The exhibition reflected on Laura Marks’ idea of the “cultural organization of perception” and her thesis that spectatorship “is an act of sensory translation of cultural knowledge”. What we see is what we are conditioned to see. The eye is attracted to that which it has learned to seek.

This project happened in two stages. First we have exhibited at the Stirrup Gallery and then at Alpha Gallery in Sydney. The idea was to exhibit the same work twice and observe how different spaces and different ways of putting the work up, effect the perception.

STAGE #1

A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AND A BOOK LAUNCH
Stirrup Gallery, Sydney
Curated by Ira Ferris for the Head on Photo Festival
Artists: Vitor Queiroz and Marta Maia
Mediums: photography, sound art, text
May 2017

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The project involved publishing the Eastern Thoughts memoire launched on the night of the Stirrup exhibition.

STAGE #2

EXHIBITION AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Alpha House gallery
Curated by Ira Ferris for the Head on Photo Festival
Artists: Vitor Queiroz, Marta Maia, Trevor Brown
Mediums: photography, sound art, text, experimental music
May 2017

A few days after showing at the Stirrup Gallery, we took Eastern Thoughts to a new venue to explore the phenomenological function of the other space. To make it fresh we installed the images in radically different way and have collaborated with the renowned musician Travor Brown who played the set on the Opening Night.