Amos Gebhardt
Lovers
October 11 - November 15, 2024
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Please join us at Passage for the opening of ‘Lovers’ by Amos Gebhardt on Friday 11 October from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Amos Gebhardt is an artist and filmmaker operating in the realm of moving image, photography and cross-disciplinary collaborations at a cinematic scale. Informed by an extensive career in film and television, Gebhardt’s work explores the confluences of nature, culture and the body.
'Lovers’ immerses the viewer in the swirling energy of horses as they negotiate consent and desire during the height of mating season. Herds of hooves, flicking tails, and outstretched limbs capture a deep, primal communication. This intricate dance of desire and consent offers a rare glimpse into the emotional and relational dynamics of creatures beyond ourselves.
Through this lens, 'Lovers' attunes us to a narrative and sense of drama that exists in another world or species, pushing us to question the frameworks that prioritise human experiences while marginalising others.
Video Credits:
Artist Amos Gebhardt
Producer Selin Yaman
Cinematographer Jody Muston
Sound Design Jed Palmer
Editors Johanna Scott & Amos Gebhardt
Colourist Martin Greer
Online Editor Ryan Brett
Sound recordist Steven Bond
With special thanks to The Butchery, The Refinery, Panavision, Asia Swida, Adam Hunter, Dean Crichton, Karina Davies, Andrea Distefano, Sammie Jackson
About the Artist
Amos Gebhardt brings a cinematic force to large-scale moving image installations and photography, collaborating with performers, choreographers, and sound artists. Gebhardt’s practice is epitomised by their commitment to agitating dominant narratives around marginality, representation, queerness and more than human ecologies.
This year Amos Gebhardt won the prestigious National Portrait Prize for their portrait of acclaimed Waanyi author, Alexis Wright. In 2022 Gebhardt was awarded the Bowness Photography Prize for their photograph Wallaby, and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize, MAMA and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA in the same year. The video installation Evanescence (2018) and Lovers (2018), featured at the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and There Are No Others (2016) was presented at a solo show at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne.
A Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, Gebhardt’s work has also exhibited at M+ Museum, Hong Kong; ACMI, Melbourne; NGV Melbourne; MONA, Hobart; Carriageworks, Sydney, Melbourne International and Sydney Film Festivals and screened on SBS and ABC.
Represented by Tolarno Galleries, Gebhardt’s work is held in both public and private collections in Australia and internationally.