Catalogues - Loitering with Intent

Loitering with Intent

Evergon

Editor: Alasdair Foster
Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 1999

'Perverse' has its own aesthetic and its power is manifest by being outside the norms. Evergon

Caravaggio meets cruise in this rich and varied exhibition spanning lush figurative work (huge colour Polaroid prints two metres high), large mesmeric holograms and darkly moody landscapes.

For Mardi Gras 1999 the ACP will stage the first Australian exhibition of one of Canada's foremost photographic artists, Evergon. The exhibition draws on suites of work created throughout the Nineties and includes work commissioned by ACP that was made this summer in the cruising grounds of Sydney. These sites and their counterparts around the world are 'enchanted forests of homo-folklore'. But they are also landscapes under siege - cultural battle grounds.

Featuring Ramboys, a mythical tribe of young men with rams' horns on their heads and Doc Martins on their feet, the fairies from Shakespeare's Dream (in 3D) and the world's cruising grounds from Buenos Aires to Helsinki (and now Sydney), Evergon's work flirts, seduces and finally confronts the viewer with the potency and the probity of the perverse.

IMAGE © Evergon