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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

Dehiscence

Ann Debono


01 October 2016–22 October 2016

In her new show of paintings, Dehiscence, Ann Debono pursues her interest in depicting shopfront windows. These paintings are the product of a sustained enquiry into the relationship between the image and the spectral ‘Real’. The work plays on the mute and opaque intransigence of surfaces such as tiling and concrete bagging, contrasted with the open visibility offered by glass. What Debono tries to make apparent in these works is that the apprehension of surfaces is an experience which imbricates touch and sight and also bears connotations for the meaning-forming potential of materials. For instance, that glass can reveal as a property of its transparency and concrete can resist enquiry as a property of its blankness and density. Debono attempts to distress these relationships between tactility, sight, and legibility in order to bring forward the indissoluble paradoxes of images.

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  • Ann Debono (b.1989, Maitland NSW) is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She graduated from VCA with a BFA (Hons) in 2015 and is represented by Sutton Gallery. Her paintings are typified by vertiginous and disorienting compositions that try to expose the operations of representation by corrupting the recognition of the objects and spaces she depicts. She uses her own film photographs and found imagery as sources for her collage-like paintings. Recent exhibitions include Gardener’s Ellipse (2024) at CAVES, Melbourne, Bypass Blue Abyss (2024) at Metro Arts, Brisbane, and Sieve See (2022) at Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. She is an alumnus of the Gertrude Contemporary studio program.