Untitled (video still collage I - cutting closer closer to the cache) by Helen Grogan

Helen Grogan
Untitled (video still collage I - cutting closer closer to the cache), 2019
CBP Print (Group C), smooth cotton rag (unframed)
32 × 26 cm
Edition 1/3

Informed by studies in philosophy and choreography, Helen Grogan’s practice is invested in concepts of and procedures for observing, locating, and sensing. With a particular interest in framing what is already occurring, Grogan works from the perspective that any exhibition space is itself performative. Viewers are implicated through the complex kinesthetic act of observation. Grogan’s practice operates critically and dynamically with exhibition formats and institutional conditions. Works often incorporate explicit processes of flux, drift, and layering – combined with strategies of obstruction or attenuation – as means to push or stretch potential temporalities and spatialities. By employing devices that resist fixed or prioritised points of view or points in time, her works insists on an unremitting attentiveness.

Helen Grogan (b. 1979, Wodonga, Australia) currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Recent projects and exhibitions include UP TO AND INCLUDING, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems (2018/2019); Great Movements of Feeling curated by Zara Sigglekow, Next Wave in partnership with Gertrude Contemporary, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2018); the Score curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); POEM (with insistence on plurality), Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne (2015); THREE ADJOINING SPACES WITH MANIFOLD EDGES, West Space, Melbourne (2015); S.O.S–Self-Organised Systems, 2nd Tbilisi Triennial, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi (2015); Framed Movements curated by Hannah Matthews, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014); Helen Grogan, SPECIFIC IN-BETWEEN (The choreographic negotiated in six parts), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014); INSIDE VIANNE AGAIN with Shelley Lasica and Anne Marie May, Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013/2014).