First Site Gallery and PHOTO 2022 present 'Female Monologues', a new exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Karen Song, which examines the ways in which the female body can be informed and echoed by its natural surroundings.
26 Apr to 20 May 2022
Opening night: 5.30-7.30pm, Tuesday 3 May 2022. Free. RSVPs essential via EventBrite.
First Site Gallery, Basement/344 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000 (view map location).
Karen Song, 'Touch' 2021. Canson platine fibre rag. Photo courtesy the artist.
Female Monologues offers a nurturing approach to healing our physical relationship with the natural world and the more subtle relationship with our inner landscapes.
Karen Song creates a series of self-portraits interconnected the landscape, rather than being separate from it. These intimate black and white photographs convey the subtleties of the human form and the natural environments with which we cohabitate. Influenced by feminist and gender theory, the artist aims to evoke empathy, belonging and deeper connection between our physical, natural and psychological worlds.
Artist bio
Karen Song is a Chinese-born and Narrm/Melbourne-based photographer. Since 2017, she has been honing her skills in portrait and fashion photography. Her practice draws from feminist theory and gender studies and aims to evoke empathy, belonging, and nonjudgmental self-representation.
