Join us for the Opening event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 9 October at 5.30pm

Join us for an ‘artist in conversation’ event with David Greenhalgh, Curator, International painting and sculpture, National Gallery of Australia on the last day of the exhibition at 2pm Sunday 27 October.

All welcome. No bookings required.

Candle. Collapsar is a series of new works made in the studio and on analogue film by Adelaide born artist, Ioulia Panoutsopoulos. Negatives were scanned and displayed on a monitor, with the final work constructed by shooting the computer monitor with an analogue camera. Embracing screen flare, hotspots and the subtle banded pattern overlaying the screen—grain and the random optical texture of photographic film, now overwritten, is transmuted with its digital counterpart.

The resulting works resemble an open expanded pictorial nervous system, capturing a digital transformation, processed and captured through an analogue medium. In these works, Ioulia seeks ambiguous movement between digital and analogue states, embracing photography as a malleable and evolving medium to find an original language that pushes at the edges of photographic possibility.

Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, Packed Matter IX, 2022, gelatin silver hand printed photograph, 83 x 124.7cm

Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, Packed Matter VI, 2022 gelatin silver photograph, 107 x 83cm

Sydney-based Ioulia Panoutsopoulos holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from UNSW and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, First Class Honours from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. A recipient of the John and Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship, she has been selected as a finalist for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, the National Photography Prize, MAMA and Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. Ioulia’s work is held in the collection of Murray Art Museum Albury, O’Sullivan Legal, Sydney and in private collections in Australia and Greece.