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About the show:
New North Editions is pleased to present a new exhibition by photographic artist, Kallena
Kucers.
Kallena's works have featured in a number of group and prize exhibitions throughout
Australia and internationally. However, this is Kallena's first solo exhibition at the New North
Editions.
Kallena's images are beautifully crafted and visually complex.
However, they deal with the important subject of traumatic childhood experiences.
Kallena Kucers says of her photography: "All this work is very centrally grounded in the
overall concept of child abuse - from personal experience, and from later academic study
and professional practice."
"The work comes directly from my feelings, emotions, and experiences that I remember and
draw on to attempt to convey a sense of what they may be like."
Many photographs feature limbs and body parts, appearing, ghost-like, from the background
of the pictures. "This is a reflection of an emotional state, a partial disassociation," explains
the photographer.
However, each image is imbued with a glimmer of hope: "A child, who has been abused, no
matter how severely, always has hope for a better life. The most essential thing to achieve is
to find an environment where they can be safe from further abuse," says the artist.
Kallena concludes: "I very much hope that my work will help to educate many. These
experiences are caused by the direct result of abuse; they are most definitely not alone, and
there is, usually, a way out."
The exhibition is on at the New North Editions, Fairfield, from Thursday, 12 August, until
Saturday, 4 September 2010.
The exhibition will be officially opened by Norbert Loeffler, Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical
Studies, Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, on Friday, 13
August, at 6pm.
Date:
Description:
Summary:
Kallena's works have featured in a number of group and prize exhibitions throughout
Australia and internationally. However, this is Kallena's first solo exhibition at the New North
Editions.
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