AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
VISUAL
ART
Gregory Crewdson (USA)
In A Lonely
Place
“Crewdson’s images
compress the
melodrama of
an entire movie,
or soap-opera
season, into a
single, elaborately
constructed
scene.”
The New York Times (USA)
Presented by Melbourne Festival, Centre for
Contemporary Photography and Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane
A startling suite of works from
Gregory Crewdson – a visionary
artist with an unerring eye for the
hyper-real and the unexpected.
It’s impossible to talk about contemporary
photographic art without talking about the work
of Gregory Crewdson. An auteur who shoots his
images with the aid of a full film crew, Crewdson’s
elaborately staged, hyper-real photographs have
become iconic investigations of the anxieties
underpinning the everyday. Occupying the uneasy
spaces between cinema and photography, dreams
and waking, nature and civilization, order and
chaos, Crewdson crafts a world both familiar
and strange, where the recognisable finds itself
infused with a pervasive sense of uncertainty,
menace and wonder.
In a Lonely Place brings together three of
Crewdson’s re