EXHIBITION: Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land AND Aernout Mik: touch, rise and fall

Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land is a major survey of photographic works by documentary photographer Ricky Maynard, encompassing more than two decades of his work. This exhibition, being toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney, features more than 60 evocative and captivating photographic works, drawn from six bodies of work, which document the lives and culture of Maynard’s people, the Ben Lomond and Cape Portland peoples of Tasmania.

Aernout Mik: touch, rise and fall is a two-channel video installation by Dutch artist Aernout Mik, that examines the operations occurring in and around an airport security check point. Touch, rise, and fall, focuses on the social space of airports: lounges, terminals, employee offices, duty-free shops, and airport security areas. The people that occupy the space of the video engage in the mundane activities associated with airports – distraught and fatigued passengers wait in line, endure searches of oddly stuffed plastic bags of goods and at times even have their bags torn apart.