UNNATURAL CURIOSITIES EXHIBITION

“The Cabinets of Curiosity of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe, Kunstkammer and Wunderkammer were places for the display of collections of objects and distinctive epistemic worlds. These were carefully constructed to reveal the knowledge contained within in a way that worked with poetic associations instead of the empirical systems used by scientists of the time. In a similar way, the experimental sculptural devices of Chris Henschke and Donna Kendrigan portray a playful, dreamlike and haunting hybrid of fact and fiction, the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Such a poetic engagement with the world of scientific experiment conceptually underpins the ‘Unnatural Curiosities’ exhibition at Wunderkammer.” Julian Holcroft

Chris Henschke & Donna Kendrigan UNNATURAL CURIOSITIES 3rd August to 29th September Wunderkammer, 439 Lonsdale Street Melbourne tel: +61 3 9642 4694 Opening: Friday 3rd August,  6pm Hours: Tues – Fri 10 – 6 Sat 10 – 4 or by appointment