Warrnambool | A City for Living

Small acts of resistance

9 Jul 2022 - 18 Sep 2022
Amos Gebhardt, Family Portrait from the series Small acts of resistance (detail), 2020. Archival inkjet pigment print.
Amos Gebhardt, Family Portrait from the series Small acts of resistance (detail), 2020. Archival inkjet pigment print.

Small acts of resistance  is a portrait series amplifying multi-species gestures across video installation and photography. Featured works include the titular triptych photographic series which plays on the traditional trifold frames of both the conventional family portrait and religious altarpiece to position non-conforming pathways as sites of reworlding. The video installation Lovers, examines the visceral language of intimacy and agency between horses during mating season. In presenting these works together, contemporary themes of identity, inter-subjectivity and entanglement will unify Gebhardt’s practice in a bold new way.