Consuelo Cavaniglia, seeing through you

seeing through you

Consuelo Cavaniglia

Consuelo Cavaniglia has been commissioned to develop a major contemporary art project to engage with the Museum’s extensive collections and architecture.

Overview

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s project represents the first time an artist has been invited to respond directly to the architecture of the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Cavaniglia intensifies the viewer’s experience of the interior spaces as they navigate the building, by colouring the ‘lantern’ skylight, and by intervening onto glass surfaces to create perceptual shifts. 

In the Penelope Gallery, she has selected objects from the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s collection, including optical instruments and glass from the ancient world, which are presented alongside her own recent works.

The artist has also selected to display artworks from the collection by Lily Greenham (1924–2001), and Martha Boto (1925–2004). Cavaniglia celebrates these women artists and connects her own practice to theirs in a lineage of engagement with abstraction, colour, light, and perception.

Cavaniglia’s interest in perception extends to the ways that voices are represented within the museum. The artist has invited women and gender-diverse staff members to reflect on their experience of the museum and its collections. Their responses create alternative narratives to the more formal voice of museum wall labels, reframing the experience of the museum and its collections through personal perspectives.

Lily Greenham, 'Study in visual perception', 1965. Installation view, Consuelo Cavaniglia, 'seeing through you', Chau Chak Wing Museum. Photo by Stefanie Zingsheim.

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When

Open seven days a week
Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm
Sat - Sun: 12 - 4pm

Please note: we are closed on Public Holidays.

Exhibition closes 23 March 2025

Location

Penelope Gallery, Level 1; throughout the museum
Chau Chak Wing Museum

Cost

Free

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Header image: Consuelo Cavaniglia: seeing through you, 2024. Hand blown glass, acrylic; scientific instruments from the collection. Courtesy of the artist and STATION. Photo by David James

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

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Email: ccwm.info@sydney.edu.au

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