Curator

SARAH JONES

Artists

DEJAN KALUDJEROVIC

CLAIRE LAMBE

NANCY MAURO-FLUDE

SALLY REES

NOEL SKRZYPCZAK

BEN TERAKES

PAUL EMMANUEL

ANDREW NEWMAN

Date: 11-Jun-2011 – 10-Jul-2011

Location: Contemporary Art Tasmania

CURATOR’S STATEMENT:
Erotographomania (originally a term for perverse and obsessive love letter writing) aims to make parallels between the unconscious investment that artists make to address an audience and the intense erotic delusions played out in the exchange of love letters. Both produce a circuit of libidinal exchange that demands recognition. Both involve a fraught transferential displacement centred on an object of communication.

Not without an element of humour, Erotographomania explores pathos; the element of sadness and regret that flows between the ‘sender’ and the ‘addressee’ that becomes injected into the dubious presence of the world of objects; reflected there; contaminated by a past relentlessly regurgitated into the present. The exchange between the artist, the work and the audience remains confused and in flux, like that of the lover, the loved, the author and the intended beneficiary.