[Exhibition] Erwin Olaf: Elegance and perversity - John Curtin Gallery, 21 July - 15 September

'Elegance and Perversity' brings together a selection of works from Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf. In this exhibition, Olaf entertains and confronts through a series of staged photographs where "the body becomes a site of transgression that throws into question the current codes of morality, freedom and beauty." (Paco Barragan, exhibition curator). Hence, viewers are treated to glamourised portraits of a bleeding Poppaea Sabina, whose husband, the Emperor Nero, kicked her to death while she was pregnant. Similarly, we see Lady Diana Spencer, who died when her Mercedes crashed whilst avoiding paparazzi in Paris, posing with a Mercedes hood ornament embedded in her bleeding arm.



The exhibition is open at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Western Australia (Kent Street, Bentley)
Monday-Friday: 12-5pm
Sunday 30th July, Sunday 13th August, Sunday 27th August: 1-4pm (parking is free on Sundays)

More information:

• http://www.johncurtingallery.org/exhibitions/


• http://www.erwinolaf.com/