Photography exhibition - Karina Grundy: Falling through days June 27, 2007

Titled Falling Through Days , Karina Grundy's new exhibition is a portrait of the contemporary Australian family. She has an eye for the social political barb, satirical comment and the ordinariness of the everyday.

Grundy's photographs are staged in a studio setting supported by the most basic furniture ensembles – as if nothing else matters. Family members encounter each other in various domestic scenarios, seemingly cut off from the world and struggling with their identity in spite of conflicting loyalties and passions. These works are theatrical in mode - we suspend any disbelief and are prepared to go with her - ensuing an empathy with the subjects and scenarios.

Grundy sees this process as a strategy to examine the role of women in contemporary society and the place of storytelling as conduit for knowledge and entertainment in our culture. As Karina says, “ The generational divide between my mother, grandmother and me is such that child-rearing advice and story-telling is often outdated….. this breakdown of such a valuable female community and role modelling greatly affects the majority of urban women”

Grundy's tableaux compositions about parenting ask us to pause and reflect on experiences that are common to many of us but often go unacknowledged in mainstream media and social discourse


Karina GRUNDY
Night Passion 2, 2006
75x100 cm
Lambda Print

Official Website: http://www.mga.org.au/exhib-main.htm#grundy