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Weekends at PICA: Kambarang
Birak

Weekends at PICA: Kambarang–Birak

PICA opens its final exhibitions of 2024 with an afternoon of exhibition tours, artist talks, a book launch and more. Join Robert Cook, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, for a tour of Paul Knight’s exhibition L’ombre de ton ombre (The shadow of your shadow), which presents new and recent photographic, textile and machine learning works that employ the artist’s relationship with his partner as an index of time. Following this, PICA Curator Sarah Wall will be in conversation with exhibiting artist Jack Ball to discuss their exhibition Heavy grit, which brings together installation and collage, drawing on materials from the Australian Queer Archive and recent images from Ball’s daily life. The day concludes with the launch of Tight Crop, a photo book published by Heart of Hearts Press featuring Ball’s recent photographic works.  

Schedule:

3-3.45pm: Exhibition Tour: Paul Knight exhibition led by Robert Cook

3.45-4.30pm: Jack Ball and Sarah Wall in conversation

4.30-5pm: Book Launch

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About the Artists

Paul Knight was born in Sydney and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has taken intimacy as his subject and considers its relationship to representation and the social designs that underpin its expression. Knight has been researching machine learning since 2018 to understand what chatbots might reveal about human consciousness and the role that intimacy and love play in evolution. With the support of a Samstag Scholarship, Knight completed a Master of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Counterfeits at Neon Parc, Melbourne (2019) and Pliable Planes: Expanded Textile & Fibre Practices UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2022). Paul Knight is represented by Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne.  

Jack Ball is a New South Wales–born artist who has completed a PhD at Curtin University in 2021 and is currently living on Gadigal and Wangal Country (Sydney). Ball’s artistic practice critically engages with the politics and aesthetics of mess and collage as a framework for exploring trans and queer photographic representation. Ball’s recent solo exhibitions include Tight Crop at Sydenham International (2023) and Wind Chill at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2021), as well as group exhibitions the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane at Artspace, Sydney (2021) and Love in Bright Landscapes at PICA (2021). They have participated in studio residencies at PICA, SIM in Iceland and the Sillanpää Art Residency in Finland.  Jack Ball is represented by sweet pea gallery, Boorloo, Perth.  

Robert Cook is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. 

Heart of Hearts Press presents new perspectives on contemporary visual culture, critical theory, poetry and literature. The publishing house supports artists and writers from Australia and overseas to publish limited-edition books, monographs and other printed materials.


Supporters

Paul Knight:L’ombre de ton ombre (The shadow of your shadow) is supported by PICA’s Art Commissioners and presented in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Melbourne and UNSW Galleries, Sydney.  

Jack Ball: Heavy grit is supported by PICA’s Art Commissioners, the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.