Sydney — We Need to Talk!
Situations & Conversations
Wendy Murray & Friends
Opening Thursday 7 February at 6pm: Talk by Kurt Iveson, urban geographer
Exhibition 7 February to 23 March 2019
Saturday 9 February: Sydney East Art Walk, 12 to 4pm
In the battle to save Sydney’s soul Wendy Murray’s posters operate as field critics and mark the often invisible edges of the privatisation of public life: displacement, exclusion and homogeneity. She contributes to the growing field of contemporary art practice that fights against the erosion of civil and human rights — actions that Istanbul Biennial curator Hanru Hou called ‘Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War’ (2007). The exhibition’s stark signature print Sydney — We Need to Talk! says it all: people move up and down a fragile network of staircases threatened by a Jurassic background of building cranes.
