JESSICA MCELHINNEY
A WOMAN ALONE
19 Jul 2017—05 Aug 2017
A Woman Alone features two new video works.
A Woman Alone 1: reinterpretation of a monologue from the play A Woman Alone (1991) by Franca Rame and Dario Fo (WOMAN: “all on my own, full of bitter thoughts and bitter booze!”). Filmed on a constructed stage set, performed in the vein of amateur theatre/VCE drama.
A Woman Alone 2: a visual cliché of isolation – of being stranded at sea “Published on Feb 27, 2013: A Russian fishing boat spotted a stranded black dog on a large floating piece of ice. Thankfully, they stopped to save the pup from certain death.”).
Jessica McElhinney is a Melbourne based artist. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at RMIT in 2009 she has been making and exhibiting video art.
These exhibitions are part of TCB’s Prolegomenon series supported by the City of Melbourne’s Arts Grants Program, Creative Victoria and Hells Kitchen, which encourages intergenerational exchange between emerging and established artist.