Shivers Gallery is an independent not-for-profit gallery on Sydney Rd, Brunswick. We support experimental art and emerging artists with diverse voices and perspectives. Back to the Unconscious is our second exhibition series. It presents a collection of works that explore unconscious and emotional responses to an era of apparent irrationality, disempowerment and escapism.
'Empathy Gym', the first exhibition in the series, examines the process and capacity of connection, stretching concepts of how we may understand and know something outside the familiar. How do we truly connect to another? Not only to ‘mirror’ one another, but to see, outside of oneself, the other.
'Un-redact Strangers’ Stories', curated by Yi Li, is a group exhibition addressing censored, silenced, and sensitive content. Un-redact examines how predicaments are purposefully overlooked by power structures and contemporary flows of ignorance.
In 'Fun House', home and shelter express the disorienting experience of the uncanny through the lens of migration and [post]modernism. It is a moment of psychic fracture, when what should be safe is dismantled and what is promised is distorted.
The program closes with 'Time Shelter', where artists confront technostalgia, memory restoration, and the urge to retreat from the onward march of time.
Why now?
Is there a better tool than the unconscious for diagnosing the irrationality of the current moment? The pace of catastrophe resists cool explanations based on structural incentives. Even outwardly irrational drives—greed, power, ideology—can feel inadequate as explanations.
Join us for our opening events or check our website for our opening days and times.
Shivers Gallery is on the ground floor with one small (15cm) step at the entrance. Our toilet is also located on the ground floor, but is too small to be considered fully accessible. Assistance animals welcome.
We are located close to the 19, 6, and 1 tram, as well as 5 minutes from Moreland station.
Plenty of parking at the back of the building.
Please reach out to us with any further questions, and we will do our best to assist you.
864shivers@gmail.com
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