Justin Gainan / Emma Hunt

Interrogating the synchronicity between photography and sculpture Justin Gainan and Emma Hunt acknowledge the overlap and tension between the observation of objects and the objects themselves. By considering the differences between the indexical capacity of photography and the experiential tendency of sculpture, Gainan and Hunt explore the qualities, nuances and trajectory of their mediums through the viewpoint of the other. The merging of these opposing perceptual and subsequently conceptual approaches result in a de-territorialisation leading the viewer in new and critical conceptual directions.

It’s In There Somewhere creates a dialectical tension between the work of the two artists amongst contemporaneous modes of artistic production. Using her photography-based practice, Emma Hunt provokes the referential qualities of photography with a new body of work on reproduction and the process of making copies. Implementing cumbersome physical materials, Justin Gainan’s sculptural work articulates performative and unsolicited motivations through constructing concreteness. Each practice draws attention to a visual duality where ‘things’ become the material for both conceptual content and construction in the physical space.