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Melanie Boreham

Exhibition

Mortality

Melanie Boreham, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Aleks Danko, Tacita Dean, Gabrielle De Vietri, Sue Ford, Garry Hill, Larry Jenkins, Peter Kennedy, Anastasia Klose, Arthur Lindsay, Dora Meeson, Anna Molska, TV Moore, Tony Oursler, Neil Pardington, Giulio Paolini, Mark Richards, David Rosetzky, Anri...
Publication

Mortality

Charles Anderson, George Armfield, Melanie Boreham, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Aleks Danko, Tacita Dean, Gabrielle De Vietri, Sue Ford, Garry Hill, Larry Jenkins, Peter Kennedy,  Anastasia Klose, Arthur Lindsay, Dora Meeson, Anna Molska, TV Moore, Tony Oursler...
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Rewind: Mortality

...such as divorce and illness rarely recorded.An exception to this was Melanie Boreham’s use of her parent’s divorce as the subject of an artwork. As a ritual of separation, Boreham filmed her father cutting off lengths of her mother’s hair, which was then carried off by balloons...
Press Release

Mortality

...and metaphorically through the labyrinth of existence.”Mortality: 8 October – 28 November, 2010Charles Anderson, George Armfield, Melanie Boreham, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Aleks Danko, Tacita Dean, Gabrielle De Vietri, Sue Ford, Garry Hill, Larry Jenkins, Peter Kennedy, Anastasia...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung, Boonwurrung, and Bunurong peoples as the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways on which we operate and welcome visitors. We pay our respects to their Elders, both past and present, as well as to all members of the Kulin Nation.
Glimpse into the archive—

Inland explored the idea that the term ‘periphery’ is key to constructing cultural identity in Australia, and considered ideas of the centre being a place of absence.

Inland (1990)

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