DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Templestowe Road, Bulleen VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 15 May 10am – 4pm
Sat 16 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 16 May 5 – 7pm
Opening event
Sun 17 May 10am – 5pm
Fri 22 May 10am – 4pm
Sat 23 May 10am – 5pm
Sun 24 May 10am – 5pm
With cultural time seemingly at a standstill and the dialectic seemingly glitched, If Only We Knew considers what design or making can offer to bring poignancy and presence to the everyday things we live and interact with in our homes.
As live-in caretaker at Heide MOMA, Carmine Frascarelli used the disruptions around him and sourced materials for these works from the many changes surrounding Heide: the North East Link tunnel project and the demolition of the Yarra Valley Country Club next door. Rather than paint a picture, take a photo or write a poem, he attempts to use design and furniture to chart the intersection of the flows of history and place as a coordinate in an ongoing cartography of change and repetition, rather than a trendy product line. These works become stopping points where questions can be honed about what it means to want or need the new, the more, the next.
Participants
Carmine Frascarelli
Carmine Frascarelli is an artist, writer and maker and designer with an Associate Degree of Design (Furniture) from RMIT (2017). His writing has been published widely in journals and his collection Sydney Road Poems (2016) was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore and Anne Elder Awards. He has had several solo exhibitions of his artwork and is caretaker at Heide MOMA.