Vacancy

Head On Photo Festival 2012

Cybele Malinowski

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Dates: 03 May 2012 - 14 May 2012

Location: Gaffa Gallery 281 Clarenece Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

Hours: Mon to Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 5pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 03/05/2012 8:00 am

VACANCY, conceived and created by photographer Cybele Malinowski, presents an evocative series of portraits of those flea-bitten motel rooms, neon saturated dives and kitsch roadside relics that stand testament to a fleeting mode of life.

This solo show offers a nostalgic homage to the 20th Century life vanishing before our eyes, featuring a collection of snapshots from travels on the lost highways of the USA and Australia including Lynchian scenes of dreamy outer-suburban abandonment.

Amongst the imagery of ruffled sheets is a suggestion of sexually charged fleeting encounters, while the enveloping fabric of surreal architectural monuments shrouds a frayed and de-homogenised world.

Cybele will also be installing a recreated motel room within the GAFFA gallery space, and on the opening night, it will feature a lone traveler mechanically dressing and undressing, bathed in the dim light of a motel TV.