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Anne Zahalka
The Reader (Ian Collie) 1988/2024
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silver dye transfer print, transparency, pocket, loupe, string
50 x 50cm image (70cm x 70cm) framed
1988/2024
This portrait of my partner hung in my mother’s home until her death in 2016. Taken the year we met for the series Resemblance II (1988), the colour and density had shifted over time. I couldn’t bring myself to throw the image out and later pinned it up on our garden wall. During torrential rains earlier this year it weathered and a beautiful patina formed. I decided to reframe it again and hang it in my home.
Anne Zahalka has a career spanning over 40 years. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective. Deconstructing and revisiting familiar scenes and landscapes, she re-presents and reimagines them to allow for alternative narratives that reflect on cultural diversity and the ecological impact of the Anthropocene.
In 2023, Anne won the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize for Kunstkammer, a recreation of her studio which forms the centrepiece of Zahalkaworld – an artist’s archive, a touring survey show of the artist’s work by the Museum of Australian Photography.
Anne is represented by Dominik Mersch, Sydney and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. She lives and works on Gadigal Land.
In 2023, Anne won the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize for Kunstkammer, a recreation of her studio which forms the centrepiece of Zahalkaworld – an artist’s archive, a touring survey show of the artist’s work by the Museum of Australian Photography.
Anne is represented by Dominik Mersch, Sydney and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. She lives and works on Gadigal Land.
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