Simone Hine
17 June - 8 July 2023

**Simone Hine (2023) *Assets*, Digital Production Still, courtesy of the artist** © Simone Hine

Assets brings together new artworks by Simone Hine that playfully engage with the condition of contemporary visual culture, through the lens of art history, to create a dialectic between liquidity and capital, liquidity and data, and liquidity in the natural and material world. A television leaning against a rock is overtaken by live plants, glitter covered blobs of refined earth engulf a tangle of cables, videos of liquid-filled balloons bursting on freshly mown grass, and a neat grid marking the colour spectrum is disrupted by the trace of a wet glass. These eclectic gestures speak, through material exploration, to the contemporary moment of 24/7 capitalism and the Anthropocene as both experience and concept.

Simone Hine is an artist, curator and writer. Her artworks expand across performance, video, installation and sound. Recent works draw connections between the structures of contemporary visual culture and that of historical art practices. Writing and artworks explore the conditions of late-capitalism, with a particular focus on labour as it is redefined in a perpetually in-motion 24/7 society. Widely exhibited, her work has been included in Anne Marsh’s recent Doing Feminism monograph (2021) amongst other publications. Hine’s visual art practice is intertwined with her independent curatorial practice. She is a founding co-director of Kuiper Projects (Brisbane) a contemporary art gallery and project space (2017-present). She was also a founding co-director of Screen Space (Melbourne), a screen-based gallery (2010 – 2016) and Beam Contemporary (Melbourne), a commercial gallery (2010 – 2014). Hine holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne: School of Culture and Communication, in Art History.

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OPENING
6-8pm, Friday 16 June 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

IN-CONVERSATION: SIMONE HINE & ANNA BRIERS
2pm, Saturday 8 July 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

Assets playfully engages with the conditions of contemporary visual culture, to create a dialectic between liquidity and capital, liquidity and data, and liquidity in the natural and material world. This is explored through the language of YouTube and art history. The In-Conversation will elucidate these themes as they are materially manifested within the exhibition space.⁠

Anna Briers is the curator at The University of QLD (UQ) Art Museum, with 20 years of curatorial and project management experience. Notable exhibitions featuring Australian and international contemporary artists include We Are Electric: Extraction, Extinction and Post-Carbon Futures (2023) UQ Art Museum; the two-part series Conflict in My Outlook_ Don’t be Evil (2021) UQ Art Museum and We Met Online (2020) online; Craftivism: Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms (2018–21) a Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) and NETS Victoria touring exhibition (co-curator); I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella (2018–20) a SAM and NETS Victoria touring exhibition (co-curator); Cover Versions: Mimicry and Resistance (2017–18) SAM; Cornucopia (2016) SAM; and Nell (2016) SAM (co-curator). Briers has recently authored and co-edited an anthology of texts published by Perimeter Editions (2022). Entitled Conflict in My Outlook, this book brings together contemporary artworks and new texts that shed light on human experience in an era of ubiquitous networked technologies. ⁠

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JWAC Gallery
Cnr Brunswick and Berwick Streets
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
(map here)

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@simonehine

www.simonehine.com