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Abbra Kotlarcyzk, Sensuous grid seek antithesis, 2022, Hand-perforated earth-impregnated and squeeze papers, tailor’s and children’s chalk, copic markers, acrylic polymer, Melaleuca (paperbark) and

anti-aria for ater-

6 Jul 2024 – 8 Sep 2024

Artists: Abbra Kotlarczyk

This exhibition is the final instalment in a three-part series of exhibition reading rooms by artist Abbra Kotlarczyk that are centred around genealogy, familial history, material and elemental kinships, and queer modes of reading and resistance. anti-aria for ater- draws from, while also representing an operatic break with, the paternal line of its previous two iterations. The exhibition centres feminist and autobiographical psychogeographies of fire as they intersect with the history and architecture of the gallery’s incinerator, known colloquially as ‘The Destructor’. The exhibition title draws on the etymology of the root word ‘ater’ meaning fire (blackened by) and ‘aria’ meaning air (a melody for a single voice). It exists as an anti-proposition for solo expressions of creation—familial, artistic and otherwise—drawing on the pyrotechnical tensions implicit in extinction and extermination, rebirth and rejuvenation.

Envisioned as an expanded publication, this three-chapter ‘book’ cycles back to its beginning to round out with a coda, reflecting the adjacencies of water to fire in the afterlives of the artist’s grandparents and the site of the gallery/incinerator itself.

Image: Abbra Kotlarcyzk, Sensuous grid seek antithesis, 2022, hand-perforated earth-impregnated and squeeze papers, tailor’s and children’s chalk, Copic markers, acrylic polymer, Melaleuca (paperbark) and Pittosporum, steri-prune paint, starch paste, shock cord and rope.

Gallery Details

Incinerator Gallery
180 Holmes Road
Aberfeldie VIC 3040
T: 03 9243 1750
E: incinerator@mvcc.vic.gov.au
W: incineratorgallery.com.au

Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 11am to 4pm 
Closed public holidays and during exhibition changeovers
Entry is Free

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