Over the past three decades, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and educator David Rosetzky has achieved critical acclaim for his video and photography-based works exploring human relationships and the construction of social identity.
Celebrating the exhibition David Rosetzky: Video Works from the NGV Collection, currently on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, hear Rosetzky reflect on his career to date, and share his collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to art-making.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, David Rosetzky: Video Works from the NGV Collection brings together three of Rosetzky’s seminal video works created over a twelve-year period. The earliest of these, Weekender, 2001, introduces Rosetzky’s distinctive aesthetic – seductive, technically refined visuals that echo high-end advertising – set in contrast with the often unsettling inner monologues of his characters. In Think of yourself as plural, 2008, the psychologically charged nature of his work is paired with subtle, expressive movements devised in collaboration with choreographer Lucy Guerin. The final work, Half brother, 2013, created with choreographer Jo Lloyd, transforms a contemporary dance piece into a highly stylised interrogation of male bonding and social relations.