Beautiful music was played by Yinuo Mu, principal harpist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday night to accompany Julie Rrap’s current exhibition Artists dreaming, which fills the two
large spaces on the ground floor of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The
University of Melbourne. What a wonderful event by the Potter that also
included African, Egyptian and Medieval Music to complement the three other
exhibitions they are showing on the other floors until late November. Suspended
from the ceiling was a myriad of photographic images of sleeping people & dreaming,
appropriate somehow whilst the sounds of the heavenly harp permeated the space. Their inversion interesting, as though their sleep created a downfall.
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| Julie Rrap - Ian Potter Museum of Art. Photo: Julie Clarke (2015) |
Pity though that
the majority of people were eating and talking whilst Yinuo Mu was playing
& I struggled to hear the sounds. Luckily I was familiar with one piece by
Eric Satie.
The darkened second room contained free standing
sculptures of Rrap’s hands (moulded) - reminded me of Stelarc's molded arm with ear; visual projections of a woman dancing with
a scarf, rather akin to a whiling dervish as well as large scale aerial digital images of people dancing. They looked very much to me like a flock of birds in flight.
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| Julie Rrap - Ian Potter Museum of Art. Photo: Julie Clarke (2015) |
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| Julie Rrap - Ian Potter Museum of Art. Photo: Julie Clarke (c) (2015) |
Overall, it was an
interesting exhibition and perhaps a divergence of sorts for Rrap. Many thanks to The Potter for inviting me.
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