23 - 25 September 2011

In the same week that Society became a definite plan, Bianca Hester’s major sculptural commission Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning (2010) opened at ACCA. The exhibition comprised crafted and found objects (or alternatively props) laden with potential and associations – a brick wall, a basketball, a mound of soil. These objects were disrupted, used or changed through out the exhibition’s duration by intermittent actions performed by the artist, friends, a horse, gallery staff and audience members.

In Melbourne for the Art Fair I visited the exhibition twice, once at the opening where the space was in a heightened state of activity and then on a subsequent day when the space was in relative rest. In inviting Hester to have an exhibition at Society I was interested in the “where to” in the wake of the ACCA exhibition.

bits and pieces here and there brings together elements from Hester’s ACCA exhibition, new constructions and working models for future projects. Over the last four days, and seemingly from a small box the size and weight of allocated luggage, Hester has responded to the context of Society through her processed-based practice. 

Images:
Installation view 1, 2, 3 & 5. Photo: Susannah Wimberley
Installation view 4. Photo: Bianca Hester