Location:Queen Street Gallery
28 Queen St
Woollahra NSW 2025
Australia
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Exhibition Event:
Official Opening26/05/2014 6:00 pm
Artist Talk30/05/2014 6:00 am
Illusion does not free us from reality. Ironically, employing the very medium she critiques, Heydt’s work speaks to the disenchantment of the social psyche at the hands of the media apparatus and at the expense of the natural world. United by its unconventional exploration of semiology and its role in cementing corporal commodification, consumerism and constructed narratives of the past, her work splinters into several subversive series: she is primarily concerned with the perversity of production, consumption and decay. Freedom from media constructed destinies and definitions of beauty bound to banality also play central roles in her work. From empty motel rooms to opencast mines, Heydt’s visions transcend her images’ site-specific locations — the impact of the photographs are shockingly universal, rendering the global local.
Sam Heydt is a NYC based artist, designer, filmmaker, photographer, and founder of Jane Street Studio (LLC), a boutique photo studio in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan. Over the last decade she has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Venice, Vilnius, Athens and Istanbul. She has been exhibited in a constellation of galleries & museums throughout Europe, Oceania, the US, UK and in Russia at the State Hermitage Museum. She has done artist residencies in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand. Currently, she is residing in Rajasthan, India helping produce a documentary film. www.samheydt.com / www.heydtstudio.com / www.yourprobablyoverwelmed.com / www.jane-street-studio.com
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Location:Queen Street Gallery
28 Queen St
Woollahra NSW 2025
Australia
