MAPh | Katrin Koenning in conversation with Gareth Syvret

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Katrin Koenning in conversation with Gareth Syvret

9 November 2019

Katrin KOENNING Three (detail) 2018 from the series Lake Mountain pigment ink-jet prints 80.0 x 100.0 (each) courtesy of the artist and Reading Room (Melbourne)

2-3pm at MGA

Free event - RSVP here

Explore Katrin Koenning's haunting triptych of the bushfire-ravaged landscape of Lake Mountain, that was awarded this year's Bowness Photography Prize. Koenning will be joined by MGA Associate Curator Gareth Syvret as they discuss her decade-long, site-specific work exploring 'ecological imaginaries' and climate change.

‘Australia counts among the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Increasingly extreme weather conditions are impacting destructively on environment and community. During the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires significant damage was caused at Lake Mountain, changing it forever. Continuing my engagement with ecological imaginaries, this triptych is part of a decade-long, site-specific work with a forest re-growing from injury, a mountain who owns my heart, and climate change. Lake Mountain is a work of love and return, in dialogue with a wounded living world. It is a work about Earth in trauma – fighting, pleading we change our violent ways.’

– Katrin Koenning, artist statement

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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