Dates: Saturday, 30 November – Sunday, 2 February 2025
Times: 10:00am – 3:00pm, daily
Entry: FREE
Venue: CCC Gallery
Artist talk: Saturday, 18 January, 11am – 12pm
Please join the artist for a free roving gallery floor talk and a casual Q&A session.
All welcome.
Exhibition statement:
Many Movements are One explores the intricacies of a bilingual upbringing. As a first-generation Australian with German heritage, multidisciplinary artist Lina Buck investigates the duality of identity. Shaped by two very different ties, the works explore the impact of site and the influence of language in forming individual and collective identities. Developed from still images, video, installation, sound, text, found objects and fabric, the exhibition consists of three predominant artworks.
Language has a common plan. A word is a pairing between a sound and a meaning. It is composed of vowels and consonants, which do not have meaning but, when grouped, ordered, or multiplied, form speech categories such as nouns or verbs, from which meaning is developed.
Many Movements are One celebrates the physicality of language as ‘groupings’, presenting points in mapping moments of discussion and exchange. Still images and text hang on printed fabric. Viewers are invited to walk amongst words, images and sentences drawn from discussions and dialogue with the artist’s family and friends. This large installation artwork draws out these moments, utilising negative space to reflect on the intimate and fleeting moments of exchange. Celebrating the beauty and complexity of the unfolding narratives as streams of connective points, that layer and overlap one another.
The exhibition includes a large moving-image projection artwork that investigates notions of a ‘utopian motherland’ as a powerful catalyst for imagination. Presenting the ocean as a body, where water bridges land and where voices and song drift across waves. A smaller and more intimate video work titled Feuerzangenbowle documents a celebratory German tradition. It is a tradition that takes place in winter and over the festive season, inviting audiences to reflect on their traditions and the broader implications of globalisation on personal and societal identity.
Language gives voice to our experiences, memories, and stories, transforming spaces into places imbued with personal and collective significance. Many Movements are One seeks to celebrate the unique connectivity that language provides, bridging contexts and fuelling the notion of identity as evolving, intricate and multi-faceted.
“I feel fortunate to present this hyper-personal and intimate body of work with the Cardinia Cultural Centre and the team. The equipment and space lends itself generously to the array of mediums, scale and technical installation of the work. The exhibition serves as an investigation into the ties that have shaped my identity, but more importantly, to encourage audiences to reflect on the daily exchanges that form theirs.”
Artist biography:
Lina Buck is a first-generation Australian Visual Artist with German heritage and is living and working on Wurundjeri Country. Her practice explores the fast-paced transitional qualities of the present. Addressing both a personal and societal requisite for development; a state of impermanence, progression, and the vulnerability of change. Buck is interested in the altering factors that shape how, what (and why) we experience, both socially and physically—examining these shifts through altering contexts and perspectives in questioning meaning.
Buck utilises elements of performance to unpack and develop film, photographic, sound and installation works. Embedding methods of spatial measurement and the dynamics of relational or ‘bodily’ experience. Through incorporating a temporal use of performance, film, and sound recordings Buck plays with elements of time, questioning notions of a start and a finish as sort after narrative.
Working with modes of installation to guide spatial encounters, Buck’s relationship with moving-image generates a sense of physicality, a bodily empathy between viewer and performer: a joining of contexts. Shaped and guided through a desire to create work that is experienced through relational energies, actions, and their residue in time.
Buck has exhibited locally, interstate and internationally, with her most notable exhibitions including the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (finalist exhibition), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (2024), It Isn’t Always, Always (solo), the Multi-Arts Pavilion Mima (2024); the Pilotenkueche International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany (residency) (2023); In-between the Past, Present and Potential Futures (solo), PRODUCE Gallery (2023); The Sun’s Kiss Begins to Sting (solo), Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2022-23); and The RAMSAY Art Prize (finalist exhibition), the Art Gallery of South Australia (2019).
To learn more about Lina Buck’s work, please visit her website here.
Artwork credit: Lina Buck, Untilted 2024, digital still
