House of Vnholy's piercing forms and cold inert materiality offer an expression of violence, only to be soothed by a red glowing hue and moments of luminescent recharge. The compounds that make up this exhibition are wholly inorganic. Exanimate mineral assemblages form an experience that highlights the precarity and difficulty of the human condition. HoV is unafraid to tap into the darkest feelings we have encountered in order to extract genuine promises of hope and intense moments of joy.

House of Vnholy invites you all to experience his conceptual dialogue between what causes us to feel lifeless, and what feelings and experiences serve as life-sources. His concepts materialise as artworks through assemblages of raw metal, fluorescent light, chains, charcoaled furniture and black enamel. HeV responds to universal experiences of violence frontally, a reminder that avoidance does not cure our pain. He will immerse you in a balanced state of conceptual discomfort and masterful design orientation. The latter allows you to take in the harshness of his concepts with a sense of visual pleasure, leaving space for self-analysis. LIFELESS is in no way a celebration of the morbid, contrarily it is a plea to not just subsist as life passes. House of Vnholy reminds us that within inevitable suffering, there is an enhanced relationship with joy, pleasure and hope. HeV pierces through these considerations and brings light where it reflects most.

'LIFELESS' will open on Friday 16 May at 6 PM, featuring 20 works spanning various mediums, accompanied by a complimentary bar.

We'd be delighted to see you on the night.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

House of Vnholy is a multi-disciplinary artist and production designer based in Adelaide/Melbourne. HØV creates visual and immersive experiences with light, object and body through live performance and large scale installation. HØV investigates the spectacle of the visual image and the transcendence and meditation of time and space, subverting the contemporary spectacle through new media and technology. Curiosity of the ephemeral experience of light and its endless possibilities it can create, HØV’s work is imbedded in transformative experience. Over the past 14 years House of Vnholy has created several installation and performance commissions for the festivals across Australia including SEEP at Illuminate Adelaide 2022 and FOREVERFALL at RISING Melbourne 2021, MONO- at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2014, HOMME Darebin Speakeasy in 2015, MYTH #02 – The Orator at Sydney’s Underbelly Arts Festival in 2017, SEER at the 2018 Next Wave Festival. HØV were commissioned by Soft Centre Festival in Sydney in 2017 to create a performance work with sound artist Waterhouse, 2018 to create CS1.2.3.4 and SIGHT a collaboration with Jannah Quill in 2019. HØV’s work has expanded this practice to conceptual visual art exploring sculptural outcomes with static fluorescent tube light and stainless steel. Interested in the interventions of hierarchies of human intervention with technology, the sculptures explore the precarity of failure, the persistence of insecurity and the violence of materiality through its compositional framework. The sculptural forms are an ode to the mundane and utilitarian forms of everyday street circuitry, mirroring reflections of light to produce further spatial interventions, ephemeralities and society as interlinked receivers and transmitters. HØV with Hobart’s renowned winter festival Dark Mofo as Senior Lighting Director and now works with RISING Melbourne as leading event designer, delivering major projects across the festival since its inception in 2021 among other notable collaborations with Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Australian Ballet, Boiler Room, Restless Dance Theatre, Amrita Hepi, Melanie Lane, Matthew Lutton and Stephanie Lake.

EXHIBTIONS OF NOTE

DsO1.2 - Now or Never, Melbourne, 2024

mastrslv - Heavy/Lite - Praxis Arts, 2024

LIGHT /1(Public Art Installation) - 145 Clarendon - South Melbourne, 2023

SEEP - Illuminate Adelaide, 2022

SEER – Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2018

CS 1.2.3.4 - Soft Centre Festival, Sydney, 2018

MYTH #02 The Orator – Underbelly Arts Festival, Sydney 2017

HOMME - Darebin Arts Centre, 2015

MONO - Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2014