Connie Anthes

IM-POZIBLE? NEVER!

ONE WAY MIRROR is an ambitious art project which takes the form of a monumental double installation conceived and built remotely by Connie Anthes (Sydney) & Alexander Jackson Wyatt (Leipzig). It will be launched simultaneously in two gallery locations: Sawtooth ARI, Launceston Tasmania + KH55, Leipzig Germany in September 2012.

The project has so far gathered lots of positive support from peers and mentors and now we're working in collaboration with two significant project spaces. With your help to push this project just a little further, they can tell even more people in German and English by way of an artist book!

Up until now, the artists have funded the development of this project entirely on the own, making the necessary personal sacrifices and putting their money where their mouths are. But now, what is needed is your POZIBLE support.

WHAT YOUR $$ BUYS:
- Design and Printing of an amazing and challenging 32 page catalog to sit alongside the exhibitions in both locations
- Bi-lingual love by helping us translate the writing into German
- A return flight from Sydney to Tasmania for one artist to install the show and freight for the staging of the project.

THE ART SPEAK:
In One Way Mirror, Connie Anthes and Alexander Jackson Wyatt appropriate a fragmented vision of a Great Australian Monument to examine the role of these objects in the creation of shared images and histories. In a darkened room in Launceston, we see an image spilling shakily onto and around an ill-fitting armature, challenging legibility and leaving it's own skeleton on the walls behind.

This same object is simultaneously being duplicated in a foreign space: Halle 14, an old cotton spinnerei (spinning factory) in Leipzig, Germany. These improvised twin replicas are now cheating time and space, spinning their own distorted yarns devoid of context. Can we as Australians help but meditate on our own corrupted claims to sovereignty when seen alongside the German Nationalist archetype that saw so many of its own great monuments lost to a process of state-enforced forgetting?

One Way Mirror is a collaboration between the two artists, who share an interest in the way space is constructed and how it is transformed by time. Both artists have been funded by government grants in the past to complete complex and immersive art projects. Connie Anthes (based in Sydney and represented by Damien Minton Gallery) and Alexander Jackson-Wyatt (currently based in Leipzig) are both graduates of the National Art School.

For more information on what these artists do when they aren't collaborating, please visit their websites.
http://www.connieanthes.com
http://www.ajwarchive.com