Katthy Cavaliere: Loved is aretrospective survey of the Sydney artist’s practice (1972-2012), displaying objects that have aquired love and trauma and unique stories about life.
The exhibition is curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and will provide insight into a life presented to the public through objects, videos, photographs, mixed media installations and more.
The project features two significant works:Empty Stockings: Full Of Love(2010), a performance installation comprised of Cavaliere’s mother’s stockings, piles of clothes, and other mementos with a recorded song from her family archive; andAfterlife(2011), a photograph of a large hourglass containing the ashes of the her mother, with the artist’s shadow looming above it.
Cavaliere was born in Sarteano, Italy and migrated to Australia with her family when she was four years old.
Katthy Cavaliere: Lovedruns from Tuesday August 9 to Sunday September 11 at Carriageworks.
