New exhibitions at the CCP
Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive exhibitions.
In Gallery 1 Juha Tolonen’s Entropia combines the ubiquity of entropy with the implausibility of utopia. Grand sounding but visually clear, pictures of turnstiles leading to nowhere or a television reflecting its own environment skilfully contrast ideas of progress and degeneration.
Simon Cuthbert’s Downtown questions the messages we receive from our urban environments and Underpin, a series by Andrew Curtis, is a close up exploration of the underworld. One thing leads to another by Debra Phillips focuses on all things street-level and shows the seeming inexhaustibility of photography. Last but not least, Chantal Faust, in her exhibition Monster, literally compresses her weird and wonderful subjects into photographs using a flat bed scanner.
The O.C may be starting again in a couple of weeks but the current shows at the CCP are where it’s really at.
Photo: Juha Tolonen, Television, 2004
Medium: Photography
Drink: Double espresso
Keywords: Photography, CCP, Fitzroy
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