Dennis Del Favero

Forgetful Sky

Exhibition dates: 29 October - 21 November 2009
Opening: Thursday 29 October 6 - 8 pm

Officially opened at 7.15 pm by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. - The works of Forgetful Sky-each powerful video or photographic vignettes, rendering facets of a ... Read more

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Photography/Affinity 2009

Forgetful Sky: 29 October - 19 November 2009 Opening: Thursday 29 October 6-8 pm

In the photographic series Affinity a body forgets its dependency by remembering a fantasy of autonomy. Deploying projections of Antonio Canova’s Psyche revived by the kiss of Love (1793), Affinity ex ... Read more

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Photography/Foreshadow 2009

Forgetful Sky: 29 October - 19 November 2009 Opening: Thursday 29 October 6-8 pm

In Foreshadow, the objects we create forget our presence by looking back at our absence. This photographic series, shot in Berlin, explores the haunted quality of advertising displays. It investigates ... Read more

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Video/You and I 2009

Forgetful Sky: 29 October - 19 November 2009 Opening: Thursday 29 October 6-8 pm

In You and I a woman forgets her abuse of a prisoner by remembering the pleasure of her conquest; in Hold Me a man forgets his subjugation by remembering a wife, real or imagined, as he struggles to d ... Read more

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Video/Todtnauberg 2009

Forgetful Sky: 29 October - 19 November 2009
Opening: Thursday 29 October 6 - 8 pm

In Todtnauberg, the Jewish poet Paul Celan forgets his meeting with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1967 by remembering an apology Heidegger never made. Heidegger’s notorious silence regard ... Read more

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Photography/Chimera 2006

Chimera investigates the way in which our bodies are diffused by ghostly presences, be they the sexuality that escapes us or the bodies of those who have passed on that permanently inhabit us. Death ... Read more

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Photography/Ombelico 2004

Del Faveros Ombelico focuses on the significance of the human navel, the mark on the surface of the abdomen that traces the former site of the umbilical cord attached during gestation. The central poi ... Read more

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Photography/Prima Facie 1993

Del Faveros Prima Facie investigates the ambiguous nature of the male body. On the one hand this body is unique and independent, the sign of power in the human imaginary. On the other it is largely de ... Read more

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Video/Deep Sleep 2004

Del Favero's video installation Deep Sleep meditates on the events during the 1970's surrounding the infamous Chelmsford Psychiatric Hospital, Sydney where patients were put to sleep in a deep coma fo ... Read more

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Videos/Pentimento 2002

One of the core issues in the interactive video installation Pentimento, made in 2002, is also the search for the truth. The story, which is adapted from a true criminal case, which occurred in Sydney ... Read more

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Interactive Video Installation (with Neil Brown, Matt McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel) ... Read more

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