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Laresa Kosloff

Artist Statement for 'the Sneeze'

'Snap Happy' is a Super 8 film I made while travelling in Greece, and it seems appropriate that the footage has finally found its way back home. It was filmed at the Epidauros Amphitheatre, and shows tourists documenting the ancient site with limited time and in sweltering heat. I am interested in how photographic mediums help us describe our experience of subjectivity and memory.

Biography

Laresa Kosloff is an Australian artist who makes Super 8 films, hand drawn animations, sculpture and installations.Recent solo shows include 'Wherever you are...' Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2003); 'Feeling for You' TCB gallery,Melb (2002); and 'Giant' Westspace gallery,Melb (2002). In 2003, Laresa was commissioned by choreographer Lucy Guerin and artist Patricia Piccinini to make two video works for 'Plastecine Park', a dance/new media performance for the Melbourne International Festival.Selected group exhibitions include 'Projekt NZ' The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand; 'MAAP'  Beijing, China (2002); '(The world may be) Fantastic', public video screenings, Sydney Bienniale (2002); 'Blinc' G39 gallery, Wales, UK (2001) and 'Vidarte', Mexico City, Mexico (2001).In 2002, Laresa was awarded an Australia Council studio residency in New York.