This major new work by influential Melbourne-based conceptual artist, Bianca Hester, used ACCA’s main gallery as a sculptural prop and venue for her experimental, spatial playfulness. Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, reinforced Hester’s ongoing interest in the way we negotiate architecture and space. The project staged a series of encounters between spaces, materials, objects, forms, people and (famously) a horse.
Bianca Hester: Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning was the sixth Helen Macpherson Smith Commission.
Commissioning Curator: Juliana Engberg
Coordinating Curator: Charlotte Day
In the Press
29 June, The Age, The evolving art of assembly
5 August, The Age, Real-life art that moves beyond the frame
7 August, The Age, Old wave, new wave
30 August, The Age, Bianca Hester
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