I Know You Despise Me For Not Being Stronger 2008 (video still)
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Simon Zoric 2008 Australia
Single channel digital video, stereo sound
2 min10 sec
I KNOW YOU DESPISE ME FOR NOT BEING STRONGER
SIMON ZORIC
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Friday 05 June 2009 to Sunday 02 August 2009
Opening Thursday 04 June 2009 6-8pm
Exhibition
previously on
at
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
in
Fitzroy precinct,
Victoria,
Australia
Simon Zoric’s work explores the messiness of relationships and the dichotomies inherent in power, passivity and blame.
Relationships are difficult. When they end, they often end badly. Sometimes people do horrible things to those they care about the most. In Simon Zoric’s video I Know You Despise Me For Not Being Stronger, hands massage and caress a central figure until, seemingly without provocation, things turn nasty. Simon Zoric’s work explores the messiness of relationships and the dichotomies inherent in power, passivity and blame.
FREE ARTIST FLOOR TALKS
SATURDAY 6 JUNE 2009 , 12PM
Join artists Bianca hester, louis porter, arlo mountford,
simon zoric, catherine connolly and larissa hjorth.
