The Thousands

Marlaina Read always manages to discover artists whose work is both incredibly gorgeous and intelligent. Her online art magazine Invisible City is is like a really delicious and soul satisfying art meal. There is always a touch of dreaminess in the work, and a leaning towards the esoteric, but it is never fey or light of content.

Luckily for us Marlaina is making her way over to Adelaide to curate an exhibition, ‘Mythologies’, for the 2010 Format Festival. Combining sculpture, photomedia and installation it will be like an oasis of beautiful thoughts manifested into Fine Art.

In one image that I’m particularly taken with, a woman lies wrapped in a red blanket inside a tent cobbled together from branches, surrounded by a forest of green trees. All alone in the forest in her self made shelter she looks like she’s found a private world to inhabit. It’s a good explicator for this exhibition because if our brains were made of many different kinds of rooms, ‘Mythologies’ would be a sort of secret, enchanted cubbyhouse: a place you retreat to so you can indulge in blissful, private contemplation.