CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK IN COLLABORATION WITH ROSINA POSSINGHAM

HOW TO EXIT A REALITY

in 7 Chapters

July 31 – October 8, 2023

SALA FESTIVAL 2023

exhibition opening Saturday August 5 at 4-6pm

Guest opening speaker Andrew Purvis, Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery

IT IS EASY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE !

HOW ?

WHEN YOU MAKE THE FUTURE !!

                                                                        Peter Weibel 15/04/2016

Can the same be said about reality?

Cynthia Schwertsik’s practice is one that praises open the cracks of reality. With compassion and humour Cynthia tests Tim Ingold’s claim; that the world is shaped through the choices we make, as we inscribe ourselves into the world through our actions.

The hypothesis that memories bound in objects can be dislodged is at the heart of the collaboration with Rosina Possingham. An attempt to use the stuff that surrounds us as portals to exit a reality.

Cynthia Schwertsik & Rosina Possingham, Exit #4, photo by Rosina Possingham

Cynthia Schwertsik & Jennifer Hofmann, Peri Urban passage #11, photo by Jennifer Hofmann

Cynthia Schwertsik, Take up Residence, photo by Jennifer Hofmann

Artist Bio

CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK art practice includes visual art and contemporary performance with a focus on activating public space through poetic participatory inclusion. At the heart of her process is collaboration. Cynthia’s generates diverse projects through interactions with people and place, informed by the absurdities of contemporary life.

Cynthia has been a recipient of grants both from Austrian and Australian government bodies and completed residencies, such as at Flinders University Art Museum in collaboration with Guildhouse and at ADHOCRACY by VITALSTATISTIX, in Adelaide. She has undertaken further residencies in Johannesburg, South Africa; Monthelon, Burgundy, France; Broken Hill, Kangaroo Island and Mount Gambier in Australia. Cynthia has collaborated with OSCA and completed commissions for Australian city councils such as the City of Sydney, City of Unley, City of Port Adelaide Enfield and The Broken Hill Regional Gallery. Schwertsik has exhibited and performed in numerous solo and group exhibitions and interventions throughout Europe, South Africa and Australia.

Schwertsik holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2016) from Adelaide Central School of Art. She also earned a Dance Diploma (1990) from TanzQuartier, Vienna and a Diploma of Textile Design (1987) from the Higher Technical College for Art and Design in Graz, Austria.

https://cynthiaschwertsik.com/

ROSINA POSSINGHAM is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, designer and photographer who values collaborative environments where ideas and conceptual thinking are shared. Her evolving practice incorporates various forms of participation through collaborative processes and digital strategies that focus on photography, scanning, drawing and abstract mapping. Her work is focussed on our human interrelationship with the natural world through notions of place and the local. Her knowledge and incorporation of digital platforms and software programs underpins her research and creative outcomes, and is extensively utilised within her community and youth workshops. Rosina is motivated to challenge, observe and rediscover the way people connect and experience the landscape and environment. Rosina is a current studio member of Post Office Projects and Floating Goose Studios. www.rosinapossingham.com