Horror often speaks to the collective anxieties and fears of our times, from sexual liberation to new technologies, racial tension to gender subversion. From the other side features a range of historical and contemporary works alongside new commissions that highlight horror’s capacity to transgress and destabilise forms of power and subjugation.
The exhibition centres on the monstrous-feminine and resists the prototypical role of women in horror as either victims or final girls; here, they perform the dual roles of temptress and castrator – alluring yet repulsive, contaminating yet pure.
Julia Robinson, Tatterdemalion (detail), 2022, linen, thread, found embroidery, scythe, steel, 155 × 75 × 30cm. Photograph: Sam Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
9 December 2023 to 3 March 2024
Melbourne
