THE BELIEVERS

Maria Cruz, Mikala Dwyer, Anne Ooms

4 September - 28 September 1997

Sydney artists Maria Cruz, Mikala Dwyer and Anne Ooms describe this project as "an exhibition in honour of the quirky presence of the consciousness of objects, fuelled by a dearly-held ironic belief in the supernatural power of art in the duration of the everyday."

Cruz's works are paintings of questions — including "Do you think that suicide can be justified on principle?" and "Do you see the mentally ill as a burden to our society?" — rendered in differing degrees of legibility and graphic excess. These questions were originally posed to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder by German school children. Mikala Dwyer installs everyday objects — a pot plant, a battered ghetto-blaster playing a lullaby, her toothbrush and a baby blanket — on basic plywood rockers, as if to send these worn objects-of-comfort to sleep. For her video installation Pepper, Anne Ooms has artist-friends in seven different countries film their living spaces while playing her still-image video of a red pepper.

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