Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth / Centre for Contemporary Photography

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Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, Universal Power House: In the Near Future, 2017, single channel HD video, 12:30min. Video still. Courtesy the artists. Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.

Exhibitions

27 July – 09 September 2018

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Sonia Leber and David Chesworth

Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth

1:1 1989 A bewilderment A Constructed World A Four Letter Word A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World A Library To Scale a man held A Manual for Small Archives A Performative Paradox A Study Of The Insignificant A Taste of Ashes Fills the Air A to Z of Health and Wealth A treasured private notebook Abstract Hypocrisy Advertisement After Images After the War Alice's Conversations in Cyberspace All Prize Winners Paraded All the Three Letter Words in the English Language All you knit is love Computer shoulders An American Index Of The Hidden and Unfamiliar An Effort Of Memory An Elegy to Apertures An unorthodox flow of images Ancestors Angels of the Bottomless Pit Angry Black Snake Aotearoa My Hawaiki Apókryphos Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth Archive 1980-99 Arini Byng: (indistinct chatter) Art Calls Art+FILM Artintact As I Gaze Aspic Astral Imbalance At the junction of twelve locations on Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, November 2011 to February 2012 Australia Authority Awareness Babel Background Sex Bad Blood BananaMilk Basilisk and a Universe of Dirt Basta! Beater Beautiful Games Behold Beyond Beyond Setting Suns Beyond Xanadu Black on White Black Ships Black White & Grey. Photographic Studies (Photosheets) Bohemian Powderpuff Brain Tumour Helmet with Microwaves Brendan Lee Buildings Are Lonely People California Re-visited Call Of The Wild Can you hear me? Canal Caroline Garcia: Primitive Nostalgia CCP 2012 Fundraiser CCP 2014 Fundraiser CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things Ccp Declares: On the Social Contract CCP Documentary Photography Award 2009 CCP Documentary Photography Award 2011 2015 CCP Fundraiser 2017 CCP Fundraiser: The Witching Hour Ccp Limited Edition Print 2008 CCP Limited Edition Print 2009 CCP Limited Edition Print 2010 CCP Limited Edition Print 2011 CCP Limited Edition Print 2013 CCP PHOTO FAIR CCP Photoblog CCP's 30th Anniversary Fundraiser Ccp Salon 2013 CCP Salon 2014 CCP Salon 2015 CCP Salon 2016 2017 CCP Salon Cecilia Sordi Campos: Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba Cheap Flights Chronicles of the New Human Organism Citizens of the Park Clay Cameras Clearing The Mists Climbing The Walls and Other Actions Clunky Bits Colony Come to Me Compass Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and Photography Contagious Continuous Moment: Sordid's Hotel Continuum Counter-Space Couples Craters of the Moon Creator Cropped Cross Currents Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier Cry CU Cub Separated From Spooked Polar Bear Cultures - Landscapes Cusp and Cornice Custom Made Cuttings In The Forest Of Images Cyberspace Dance to the Radio Dark Matters: Selected photographs by Janina Green, Curated by Naomi Cass & Pippa Milne Darkness Loiters Databank of the Everyday and The Intruder Daydream de_ccp Defenceless 23° and Rising Digital Mana dis/appearance: waiting room #4 Disruption Domino Theory Don't go out walkin' Double Negatives Drama Dream of the Soft, Hard Look - The Masters Duelle Dumb Duration of Sense E-180 Ectomorphia I Edgewood: Aerial Photography Of New Suburbia Elsewhere Elysian Fields Emergence Empty Encyclopaedia Entre Nous: Claude Cahun and Clare Rae Entropia / Downtown Erysichthon's Ball Event Horizon Event Horizon Expedition Experimenta House of Tomorrow: Homepage 80/137 Faces Familiar Surroundings? Lost & Found Family Resemblance Fantastic Prayers Farm Fascination Fashioning Discontinuities Faux Thrills Fell Fictions Figuratively Speaking Filmtext First Jobs Flashlight District Flight 934-B Fluid Architecture Folded Colour Folding the Periphery For Future Reference Foto-ography French Pup Fresh From Paris From Here to Eternity From Our Members From Our Salon Prizewinners From Our Volunteers Fruits of Our Labour FX Geodetic Monuments Gloss Gone Gordon Bennett: Moving Images, Part One Gott's Treasure Graduate Exhibition Rmit Media Arts Graduate Show Great Expectations Guest House Habitat Habitation HACK WORK Hair in the Gate, a biograph Half Moon Hall Of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007 Hall Of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987—2007 Hand in Glove Hi-Vis Dreams Highlights From The Permanent Collection Him Self How Much Longer Will You Live Like This I can see for miles I Can't Talk Now I Know You Despise Me For Not Being Stronger I Want To Swing On An Invisible Swing Ice Blink: Antarctic Photographs Ice Blink: Antarctic Photographs Iconoclastic Plastic if...so...then 2018 ILFORD CCP Salon 2020 ILFORD CCP Salon 2019 ILFORD CCP Salon Illuminated Books Image Reader In a Cave Home In a Lonely Place In camera and in public In camera and in public In Cold Light In debt: saving seeds In Light In Response To Never Being Answered Again Inbtween Index Indirect Image Indri Pickle Lab, Mango Pickle Industrial Nocturne No. 2 In/Ex Infinite Image Information Narrative Inland Inland Installation Stills Installed In The Midst Of The Visible International Waters Internationally Unknown Artists Intersection Japan Portraits Je Toto Lokální, Nebo Národní Zvyk? Join The Dots Just a Girl Keep Clear Keep passing the open window Kodak Autumn Salon 2011 Kodak Salon Kodak Salon 2005 Kodak Salon 2006 Kodak Salon 2008 Kodak Salon 2010 Kodak Salon 2011 Kodak Salon 2012 Krater Crater Kulin Project La Toilette D'une Femme Labland CCP/City Of Yarra Billboard 2011 Super 8 films Lassie Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award 2005 Leica/ Ccp Documentary Photography Exhibition + Award Leica/CCP Documentary Award 2005 Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Exhibition + Award L'homme dans les draps Like a clap of thunder Liminal line Lit from the Top: Sculpture through Photography Lives and Works in Melbourne Location Los Nomadas Del Mar Lose Lost World Love at First Sight Love Lucy LumpCD Lyric Theatre Mac Making Faces Making Models: The Collaborative Art of Wendy Ewald Man Walking/Man Running Material From Another Medium Maturing Maxwell Summer Salon 2000 McKeich Digital Art folio Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Melbourne Art Fair 2010 Memo Memory's Surface Men Undressed Meniscus Merge Nodes Metabody: From Cyborg to Symborg Metropolis Minimal Interventions Miriam Charlie: My Country No Home Mirror Miss Carmichael's View Mizuno D301 Mnemosyne, or Do Humans Dream in Negative Strips? Models Modus Operandi Mona Lisa Monster Move Tracey Moffatt: Art Calls Multiple Xposure Mutatis Mutandis My Australia Nail + Hammer National Housing Search <$250,000 Natural History New Branches on an Old Tree New Fragrance New Images, Works In Photocopy New Reading Order New Work: Expanded and Compressed Nightwalks 2004 Nikon Summer Salon Nikon Summer Salon 2001 2002 Nikon Summer Salon 2002 Nikon Summer Salon 2003 Nikon Summer Salon 2003 Nikon Summer Salon Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer Of The Year 2002—2006 That takes balls No Place Like Babylon No True Self No Vertical Song Nosegay Not Moving Not Only Skin and Fabric Not Really Aboriginal Objects in Life Objects Of Life Oh No Momento On The Line On The Road One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong One Thing Leads To Another One Word Movie Oneirophrenia Open-ENTRY Award and Competition Ophelia Bakowski: Embrace; A River Runs Through Orbital Orchestra of Rust Overhead Project (Galla Placidia) Owner-Builder of Modern California House Pale Worlds Pan No.2 (one step forwards, one frame backwards) Parallel Worlds Parasite Parkies of Old Fitzroy Parklife Parting Embrace Pass Perennial Perfect Strangers Perishable Goods Photocopier Photographs Photographs (Sun Series) Photography & Videos Photography Portfolio I & II Picture This as an Idea Play with Me Polar Convergence Portfolio Portraits from my Village Post War Retro Postcard from Tunis Poste Restante Precious Metals Presence between Alborz and Hekla Presented Pret-a-Porter - Infrastructure Spectaculaire Pretty Aprons & Getting Dollied Up Primitive Nostalgia Projection Window Proof Of Concept Props and Gesture Prowl Pruitt Igoe Falls Pursuit of Happiness Quality Photographs Queer Economies Quiver Radiolucent Rapt Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan Rapture (silent anthem) Raw Backyard R+D Really Really Recent Animation Reflections Rehearsing The Landscape Relatively Speaking Remember Me I'd Never Seen Or Heard Anything So Clearly Made For Me Reservoir Reverse Wild Bunch Rhapsodia Rmit Media Arts Graduate Exhibition Rooms RSVP Ruang Mes56: Contemporary Photography from Indonesia Ruang Mes56: Contemporary Photography from Indonesia Rumba Sola Runes: Photography and Decipherment It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Santiago Breathing Scenic Themes Seeing System Selected Photography Selected Video Works 1999–2004 Selected Works Selected Works Selected Works Selections From Penumbra: Contemporary Art From Taiwan self-remembering-optimal viewing distance Sequence Set To Zero Sexinstereo shadow sites Shiver Shock In the Ear Side-effected Industries Sign Of The Times: The Fashion Photography Of Rennie Ellis Silent Ruptures Crowd Theory Sixth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award Sixth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award Skin Club Sky Views Sleeping Under a Motorcycle Not Sleepy Sleepwalker Softstyler Solid Estate Some Kinds of Duration Some Things Uncanny Somewhere Between Art & Design Sony Alpha Awards Exhibition Space that we are Span Specimen Spinning Stalker Standstill Still Counting (Don't Forget Me Again) Still-Life with a Whore Still Lives Storing Up Stranger Knocking Strangers In The(ir) City: Contemporary Vietnamese Photography Studies in Rising and Falling - Kiribati 2011 Studio Practice Pt 1 Sub Zero Summer Salon Suburban Fetish Suburban Stormtroopers Suck Roar Suddenly Slowly Summer Salon 1999 Surveying The Void Suspense Syntax 7.0 Take Care! The Phantom! Takin' a Shot Tanztee And Erbgericht Target Practice An American Index Of The Hidden And Unfamiliar Temoin Oculaire: Shelter or Prison: a meditation on incarceration and madness Thank You, Friends 束の間の、つなぎのようなもの - That is, like a brief moment to be filled The Art Bar 2018 CCP Fundraiser: The Art of Collecting The Art of Play The Art of Publishing: An Exhibition of MACK Books The Box Brownie Years 1956-58 The Chimerical Daughter The Chosen The Club The Copse, parts 2 and 3 The Dark Pool The Derwent Project The documentary take The Entertainer The Folly The Fourth Dimension The Good Cook The Great Leap Forward The Ice Shaver The Industry Of Working The Jess Trap The Lambs Of God The Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Exhibition + Award The Likes of Us The Measured Room The Memory Room The Mourners The Mutant Gene and Painted Coolade Sideshow The Neighbour's House The Occupation 2 The One Thousand Other Things The Poetics of Thresholds The Process of Feeling The Promise The Red Tricycle The Ribbon The Sievers Project The Sixth Mile The Sky After Rain The Spectre Smitten The Sta. Mesa Diaries The Sweetest Path The Terrible Boredom Of Paradise The Tuvaluan Project The Village The Wandering I The White Transformation Parlour The Window The World As One Photography From Germany After 1989 The Young Ones There Stands The Glass They stand outside looking at their house which looks at them in turn as future ghosts This Summer This Weather Thoughts of Self Three Angles Three Mile Creek Three Steps Removed Throw Brother From The Train Time and Distance Time Slice timespace04:timelapse2002 To resound, unbound Torrent Tour of Duty Traits Transgression Travels with C.O.D. Trees In Space: The Reorder Of Things Trompe l'oeil True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography Turn on the Tongue Twelve Exits Uncle Bill Under A Tungsten Star Underpin Universal Language – alternate reality Untitled_ccp_archive.jpg Untitled Spaces Untitled (walking) Useby Vacillation Plate Vantages Video Diaries 32 Volumes Wait Not Want Walk In Silence Walker Evans: The Magazine Work Wall Drawing (window) Wall of Seahorsel We told ourselves we needed separate beds to sleep Wellington What Time is this Place? When I look outside the window my shoes creak When Nature Forgets When Our Horizons Meet Whirl White Collar Undone Why Take Pictures? Wild Boy Wild Thing Without Words Wonky Works from the Jeleni Studio Residency Worry For The Fruit The Birds Won’t Eat Writers' Block Yesterday's News Yiorgalletos Your Own Personal Mundaneum Taking it Blak Olga

Architecture Makes Us is a major mid-career survey of the cinematic video works of Australian artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP).

Bringing together six major video works by the collaborative duo, Architecture Makes Us explores craggy geographies, territorialisation, surveillance, exhausted systems and future philosophies. In this landmark survey commissioned by CCP, Leber and Chesworth offer a rich exploration of the way society is impacted by the geographical, technological and the architectural influences that surround us. These works point towards the architecture of our world in the broadest sense, examining structures both physical and invisible.

Leber and Chesworth have been collaborating since 1996, and have been shown in key international exhibitions including the 56th Biennale of Venice (2015), the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); and a parallel exhibition as part of the 5th Moscow Biennale (2013).

For Architecture Makes Us, CCP has commissioned Geography Becomes Territory Becomes, 2018; an 8-channel video installation exploring the island fortress of Suomenlinna, Finland.

Through these rigorous, politically engaged, and at times humorous video works, Architecture Makes Us encourages a deeper look at one of Australia’s most lauded mid-career artistic duos.

Architecture Makes Us is the fourth mid-career survey curated by CCP, following major exhibitions focusing on the work of Anne Zahalka (2008), Simryn Gill (2009) and David Rosetzky (2013).

Architecture Makes Us includes an accompanying publication featuring texts by Naomi Cass, Giles Fielke, Fiona Gruber, Pippa Milne, Nikos Papastergiadis, Amelia Winata and Kate Warren. Designed by Joseph Johnson.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Publication generously sponsored through the Gordon Darling Foundation.

About Sonia and David

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth are known for their distinctive, highly-detailed videoworks that emerge from the real, but exist significantly in the realm of the imaginary. Developed through expansive research in places undergoing social change, their works are speculative and archaeological, responding to architectural, social, and technological settings.

Leber and Chesworth’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including 'The Last Reader', annex M, Megaron, Athens (2018); ‘The Score’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); ‘Looking at me through you’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (2017); ‘I don't want to be there when it happens’, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (2017) and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth (2017); ‘Call of the Avant- Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2017); ‘The Real and Other Places’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, at Photo Shanghai (2017); ‘The Documentary Take’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016); ‘Borders, Barriers, Walls’, Monash University Museum of Art (2016); ‘56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures’ (2015); ‘19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire’ (2014); ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013-14); Melbourne Art Fair Video Program (2014); ‘Cooperation Territory’, 16thLine Art Gallery, Rostov-on-Don, Russia (2013); ‘Stealing the Senses’, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2011); ‘In camera and in public’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2011); ‘Madrid Abierto’ (2007); and ‘+Plus Factors’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). Leber and Chesworth have been commissioned to create site-specific works for public spaces in Australia, Wales and Slovenia.

Solo exhibitions include ‘Zaum Tractor’, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2014); and Gridchinhall, Moscow (2013); ‘The Way You Move Me’, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2012); ‘Space-Shifter’, Detached/MONA FOMA, Hobart (2012); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2011); and Conical, Melbourne (2009); and ‘Almost Always Everywhere Apparent’, Mildura Arts Centre (2008); and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2007).

Throughout the preparations for this show, the artists were grateful for the support of a NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship, funded by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Installation images: Zan Wimberley

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