Image: Courtesy of the artist
February 5 - May 17, 2024
Exhibition opening: Friday, February 9, 5:30-7:30pm
The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Free entry, all welcome
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You can find Multiverse in The Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
Gallery II is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.
The Mill is excited to present Multiverse, a new exhibition by Adelaide-based artist Liliana Pasalic. This exhibition presents a selection of new tapestries in tufted yarn on monk cloth. The work builds on Liliana’s former career in industrial design, as well as her practice in the visual arts, including painting. She skillfully uses the three-dimensional tufting in a way that is suggestive of abstract painting, combining positive and negative space with an adept use of colour and texture. She has also included a large tapestry-and-light-based installation pushing the medium to new and contemporary realms. The work draws on Liliana’s knowledge of contemporary and historical textile and tapestry practices, and imbues seriousness alongside humour in her art.
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Multiverse explores the translation of visual cultural material into tapestry. I have collected a lot of photographic source materials of pasted-up posters in the urban environments of the three cities where I have lived: Adelaide, London and Zagreb. Within these photographs I find and extract motifs, formed by the ripped posters, degraded by weather and also remnant graphic elements. This exhibition is a woven visual library, an attempt to alchemize my familiar psychologically mapped home environments into one visual poem. I invite the viewer to observe urban debris in their own immediate environments and hopefully be inspired to use it in their creative projects. This body of work is a continuation of my previous work in broader themes of home and crossing borders between mediums. The exhibition aims to offer a contemporary take on non-traditional/neglected mediums of contemporary tapestry and contemporary painting. For this exhibition I am using only compostable materials of wool, wood and cotton monk cloth, which is in alignment with environmental aspects of The Mill's vision. The exhibition is one possible way of blurring disciplines and mediums and contemplating history of art.
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Liliana Pasalic has a background and formal education in industrial design, which organically transmuted into a full-time art practice over the last decade. Her practice centers on painting and tapestry while drawing from design recollections and blurring the boundaries between these vaguely intertwined forms. Pasalic’s work delves into art history, identity, the subconscious and relationships. Occupying the realm between abstraction and figuration, it references women’s roles, stereotypical suburban depictions, and iconic symbols infused with her individual outlook, both as creator and observer. Over the last 20 years she has exhibited design and artwork in solo and group shows around the world, including Zagreb, Ljubljana, New York, Bruxelles, Vienna, Adelaide, Jerusalem, Canberra. Pasalic is represented by Studio Gallery in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and The Nada Gallery in Sydney. In 2023 she was a resident in The Mill as well as chosen as a finalist in the National Capital Art Prize in Canberra.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.