Peter Alwast

Peter Alwast: Selectively Revealed

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Work by Peter Alwast work will feature in ‘Selectively Revealed’ an Experimenta/Asialink Exhibition to be held in two locations across Asia:

Taiwan: 11 February – 13 May 2012 – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

Thailand: 4 June – 21 July 2012 – Chulalongkorn University Art Space.

“Selectively Revealed investigates the blurry line between the public and the private in artistic practice. The artist is presented as voyeur, muse, subject, performer and social commentator. Using a variety of screen based practices, each artist pushes and pulls at the notion of what is private and what is public, choosing precisely what, when, how or when not to reveal their subjects or themselves. Ultimately, everything is presented for scrutiny; an innermost feeling, a personal moment, a fear or failure, an everyday encounter, an experience of rapture, a banal endeavour. Much is revealed, celebrated and critiqued.”
Sarah Bond (Asialink) and Clare Needham (Experimenta)

Peter Alwast: Future Perfect, IMA

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Gallery 9: Peter Alwast Artist I Future Perfect, installation at IMA, Brisbane

Peter Alwast has a solo show opening at the IMA, Brisbane on 20 August. Titled Future Perfect, the major work is a 9-channel video installation. Peter explains the work in the exhibition catalogue in a conversation with Grant Stevens:

“The title refers to the way future and perfect tenses are combined when we say something ‘will have’ happened, as in ‘Tomorrow I will have become complete’. The future perfect implies looking back on something that hasn’t happened yet; future and past are conflated and the present in somehow deferred. The future perfect combines anticipation and reflection, and it relates to my interest in combining 3D animation with other mediums like drawing, painting and shot video. In my work, the virtual and actual coexist in tension, just like experience and expectation in the future perfect.”

20 August – 15 October 2011, IMA Brisbane