Kiera Brew Kurec

Through video, performance, sound and installation, Brew Kurec explores the construction of identity, positioning herself and immediate surroundings as the primary mediums through which to explore the relationship between socio- cultural heritage, gender, age, sexuality and the human condition. By recycling iconic clichés Brew Kurecs works are experimentations, a process, a child like meandering through the symbolic domain, creating emotional exchanges between the audience and the work/herself. Brew Kurec studied a Bachelor of Fine arts Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts, after which she spent 6 months living and exhibiting in Berlin. Since graduating she has exhibited at TCB art Inc, Victoria Park gallery, Seventh, K salon (Berlin) and Takt gallery and residency (Berlin). She has also had work in group shows including the 46th Do It exhibition curatored by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Parked!! Winner of The Melbourne Age Fringe Festival Visual Arts award, awarded a show at Alliance Francaise, selected for work to be shown during the Berlinale at the directors lounge (Berlin), as well as participating in other shows at various Melbourne A.R.Is. Drawing inspiration on 17th century Still Lives For those who appreciate that nothing is solid uses cement as a tool to highlight the temporay nature of day to day life. The work engages with the idea of preservation and how even though things can be preserved ultimately nothing stays the same, every thing decays, dispersing and evolving in to something else.

For those who appreciate that nothing is solid
New work by Kiera Brew Kurec
5-13 December 2009
Studio 4.2, Level 4, Metro Arts
109 Edward Street