Meredith Turnbull: I Thought That Love Was Science Fiction
The Sunday Age
Sunday April 20, 2008
Meredith Turnbull: I Thought That Love Was Science Fiction
TCB Art Inc. Level 1, 12 Warratah Place, city. April 23 to May 10. Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6pm. Tel: 9663 8233Sci-fi has often considered the subject of romance and drawn pessimistic or wildly pornographic conclusions. This is because it's created by male geeks of the species nerdus nerdus. Think Blade Runner with its unattainable Rachael and lascivious Pris. Or take a bite of Cherry 2000: "She's a robotic woman that becomes a man's driving passion." Could that describe Chrissy Amphlett? Finding her own dystopian sadness in the toxic wastelands of photographic abstraction, Meredith Turnbull captures sci-fi movies - and the Divinyls' clip "Science Fiction" - on her mobile phone before reprocessing them for projection in the gallery space. Turnbull's photographic installations play tricks with scale and space, just like the clever model-makers that built the Death Star. Also at work is a craftsperson's cold-edged skill as Turnbull integrates the geometric forms of her jewellery practice into the images - techniques of working gold, silver and less-precious metals that would surely come in handy in designing a robot lover.
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