Currently on show at La Trobe Art Institute is a playfully eerie installation by Melbourne duo The Ryan Sisters.
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Is Anybody There? intrigues viewers from the moment they encounter the velvet curtain that obscures the gallery entrance.
The Ryan Sisters have been collaborating and exhibiting together for several years as well as sustaining their own individual artistic practices.
Together, the artists explore ideas associated with humour, horror, death, and the absurd.
The sisters are also interested in the process of collaborating and the way that their identities seem to merge when they work together.
Often using casts made from their own bodies, The Ryan Sisters create installations that are at once absurd and shockingly real.
In this exhibition, their own bodies once again come into play as they negotiate their individualities in the context of collaboration.