Fears of a Jaded Descent, the first solo show of gifted young local artist Vienna Parreno is running as one of the parallel programs for the current Sydney Biennale, Forms that Turn, along with simultaneous group exhibitions of other media arts at Gallery 4a, Asia-Australia Art Centre, Sydney.

Parreno is promising to be one of the most interesting under-30s talent emerging from Australasian region with a practice that spans a wide variety of media. Having recently returned as an Australia-China Council/Red Gate Gallery Artist-in-Residence, she has proceeded to suspend a large number of brushes she has collected from her trip at variable height from the ceiling - completely filling the ground floor gallery of the centre.

Using gold filament amidst the sea of red brushes, some stopping only a few inches from the ground; the work is a strikingly simple installation which nevertheless becomes a vivid poetic visual metaphor on a multiplicity of themes (communication/miscommunication, suspension/tension, stillness/movement, cynicism/forbearance) transforming the space and the audience’s relationship to it as they navigate through the work.

The other media arts which are exhibiting simultaneously with Fears of a Jaded Descent are from Thailand programmed by Michael Shaowanasai (on Level 1), solo exhibitions by Melbourne based Thai artist Vipoo Srivilasa (various private residence in Sydney) and composer-media artist Robert Iolini (Night Visions Program).

The exhibition along with the works of Shaowanasai, Iolini and Srivilasa opened on June 13 by Sydney City Mayor Clover Moore to packed standing-room only audience, signalling perhaps the beginning of a funky and youthful turn at Gallery 4a.

The exhibition displays from July 14 - July 26. Gallery 4a is open Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 -6 pm daily.

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