BODIES BEYOND THE SKIN

Isabella Capezio

11 - 27 April 2025, Platform (closed 20 April for Easter Sunday public holiday)
Exhibition opening: 6pm, Thursday 10 April 2025
Cyanotype & Anthotype Workshop: 12-2pm, Sunday 27 April

Photography has historically been complicit in the colonial project, serving to capture, categorise, and narrate ecologies as ‘space’—a tool for mapping, surveying, legitimising land seizure and resource exploitation.

Bodies Beyond the Skin interrogates how landscape photography has upheld hierarchical, masculinist assumptions and seeks to problematise this schema by using ‘queer’ and camp methodologies to disrupt colonial frameworks.

By misusing photographic materials, engaging in alternative processes, queering forms, and collapsing the boundaries between landscape photography, collectivity, and politics, the exhibition challenges existing narratives of the Australian landscape while offering new ways of seeing, being with, and listening to Country.

Isabella Capezio is an artist and lecturer in photography living and working on stolen Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. Isabella’s work and research explore ideas of failure, queerness, and nature and how alternative and expanded forms of photography can unsettle existing colonising forms of representation. Isabella is interested in experimental, process-driven and site-specific engagements with environments and their histories to address the climate crisis, extraction and colonial logics.

Cyanotype + Anthotype Workshop
12-2pm, Sunday 27 April, Platform
This workshop will introduce you to the history of the processes and demonstrate methods to create anthotypes (plant-based emulsion) and cyanotypes (chemical-based emulsion) at home. In the workshop, you will make your own artwork by experimenting with sustainable photographic printing processes through foraging, collaging and toning images.

Please bring an empty picture frame and any plants and flowers from your garden that you might like to use.

Free but bookings are essential; https://events.humanitix.com/cyanotype-and-anthotype-workshop

Image: Isabella Capezio Scene/Unseen 2024, video still. Photo courtesy the artist