Shelter: On Kindness Exhibition at RMIT Gallery
An exhibition bringing together more than 50 artists, architects, writers and philosophers to explore the notion of shelter and kindness opened at RMIT Gallery. Curated by Suzanne Davies, Vanessa Gerrans and Sarah Morris, Shelter: On Kindness explores philosophical and material concepts of shelter.
Presented by RMIT Gallery in association with ArtPlay and Melbourne International Arts Festival, the exhibition examines ideas of nurture and kindness through the filter of the writings of UK psychoanalyst and author Adam Phillips, who argues that we have a deep need to be kind to each other and we crave kindness with intensity.
“Real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences,” he said.
The scene-stealer is a 4m-high contemporary Japanese teahouse built inside the gallery by internationally renowned Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori, who is visiting Melbourne for the exhibition.
The teahouse is just one of many giant shelters constructed in the gallery. March Studio is using 20 tonnes of sustainable timber to create an almost 5m nest to hide inside, while Gregory Burgess and Pip Stokes incorporate 400 blocks of beeswax, weighing more than 9kg each, into their structure.
Shelter: On Kindness is at RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne until 25 October.
Watch an interview with Adam Phillips about shelter and kindness on YouTube
RMIT University
An exhibition bringing together more than 50 artists, architects, writers and philosophers to explore the notion of shelter and kindness opened at RMIT Gallery. Curated by Suzanne Davies, Vanessa Gerrans and Sarah Morris, Shelter: On Kindness explores philosophical and material concepts of shelter.
Presented by RMIT Gallery in association with ArtPlay and Melbourne International Arts Festival, the exhibition examines ideas of nurture and kindness through the filter of the writings of UK psychoanalyst and author Adam Phillips, who argues that we have a deep need to be kind to each other and we crave kindness with intensity.
“Real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences,” he said.
The scene-stealer is a 4m-high contemporary Japanese teahouse built inside the gallery by internationally renowned Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori, who is visiting Melbourne for the exhibition.
The teahouse is just one of many giant shelters constructed in the gallery. March Studio is using 20 tonnes of sustainable timber to create an almost 5m nest to hide inside, while Gregory Burgess and Pip Stokes incorporate 400 blocks of beeswax, weighing more than 9kg each, into their structure.
Shelter: On Kindness is at RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne until 25 October.
Watch an interview with Adam Phillips about shelter and kindness on YouTube
RMIT University