SYDNEY based exhibition and live arts space, Cement Fondu, which first opened its doors on March 10, has announced their full program for the remainder of 2018, centering around three exhibitions, representing diverse ideas, interpretations and artistry.

From a Turner Prize winner, to a cross-cultural exploration of anxiety and displacement, and a Halloween- inspired plunge into horror and post-apocalypse: this impressive series of shows well and truly delivers on Cement Fondu’s credo, to be fresh, informed, globally relevant and surprising, offering a unique approach to
the inner-city gallery experience.

For their second exhibition, following the Gallery’s much-loved Suburbia opening show, Cement Fondu Directors Megan Monte and Josephine Skinner have paired Turner Prize Winner Laure Prouvost (in her Australian gallery debut) with Sydney based artist Emily Parsons-Lord, in a playful and seductive multi-media exhibition intersecting human sensuality, nature and technology. SENSE.

Showing for the first time in Australia, Laure Prouvost’s films Swallow and Lick in the Past, shift from dreamlike scenarios evoking the beauty of nature and the freedom of youth to highlight the small but persistent ways in which digital technologies jolt us away from the idyllic and timeless pleasures of nature.

Whilst a newly commissioned installation from Parsons-Lord (Cement Fondu’s second commission for the year) examines the timeless human impulse to imagine and alter the environment: from age-old interpretations of atmospheric events as portents of ill will; to the imagined aesthetics of our future sky, a predicted result of the geoengineering required to restore
human inflicted environmental damage.

SENSE opens at Cement Fondu on  Saturday May 12, 6pm to 8pm and includes including a performance by Emily Parsons-Lord.  More information about Cement Fondu‘s 2018 exhibitions at the website.