Chitra Ganesh | Cosmic Beings | Cement Fondu

Hales is excited to announce that Chitra Ganesh is currently included in Cosmic Beings, now on view at Cement Fondu, Paddington, Australia, through 24 September 2023.
 
Cosmic Beings presents contemporary perspectives on our place within the cosmos. Featuring new commissions by Hannah Brontë and Kalanjay Dhir and a new digital commission by Studio A's Mathew Calandra on Instagram, the exhibition highlights these Australian practitioners alongside notable international artists. Drawing on broad influences, from ancient wisdoms to Afrofuturism, sci-fi comics to quantum physics, the artists look beyond our Earthling limitations to expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.
 
The artists in Cosmic Beings help us reflect on these unprecedented and tumultuous times with a critical eye to the past and vision for more peaceful and just futures. Enlisting the social criticism, philosophy and storytelling of science fiction and its otherworldly aesthetics, including puppetry, costume, comic book imagery and scientific illustration, the artists rewrite the story that humanity's salvation is dependent on planetary invasion and dispel the problematic notion of aliens as threatening 'Others'. 
 
 
Chitra Ganesh
Cosmic Beings
Cement Fondu
36 Gosbell Street
Paddington
New South Wales
Australia
 
5 August - 24 September 2023
 
August 5, 2023