Exhibitions  /  Vivienne Binns
‘On and Through the Surface’

Feb 5 – Apr 14, 2022 Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

Vivienne Binns Phallic monument 1966 and Vag dens 1967, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 1 / 9
Vivienne Binns The scenario of children, from the series The scenario of children and castration 1984, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 2 / 9
Vivienne Binns Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 3 / 9
Vivienne Binns The aftermath and the ikon of fear 1984–85 and Repro vag dens 3 1976., Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 4 / 9
Vivienne Binns Minding clouds 2016; Somebody’s everyday, somewhere, sometime 2009; and Many things together 2005, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 5 / 9
Vivienne Binns Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 6 / 9
Vivienne Binns Cambridge carpet 2001; Nylon over the Lachlan 2005; and A surface of leaves—lino 2001, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 7 / 9
Vivienne Binns Laura (Lowe) Wilkinson c.1885, and rainbow 1975; Laura (Lowe) Wilkinson with Joyce (Wilkinson) Binns (aged 5, 16, 47 & 74 years) 1976; and Tower of Babel c.1989, remade 2021, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 8 / 9
Vivienne Binns Mothers’ memories others’ memories: postcard rack 1980 and Vivienne Binns, Mothers’ memories others’ memories, UNSW 1979, Installation view, Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2022. Photo: Andrew Curtis 9 / 9

Curated by Hannah Mathews (Senior Curator, MUMA) and Anneke Jaspers (Senior Curator, Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), this major survey exhibition brings together over one hundred art works drawn from six decades of the artist’s practice.

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