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Sally Smart: Parade

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An installation by Sally Smart featuring a large, long abstract image hung on a wall with various abstract cutouts dangling in front of it
Photograph: Felicity JenkinsSally Smart, 'The Artist's Ballet' 2021
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Sally Smart brings her second work from her Ballet Russes trilogy to Geelong Gallery

Geelong Gallery is going to look a little different in 2022. From March 19, Sally Smart is taking over the gallery with an experiential and immersive installation inspired by the costumes and sets of the Ballet Russes.

Sally Smart: Parade is the second part of Smart's Ballet Russes trilogy, which premiered during the 2019 Adelaide Festival. The exhibition is site-specific and features textile installations of costumes and curtains alongside sculptural works and recorded performances, all inspired by the Pablo Picasso-designed sets and costumes of the 1917 Ballet Russes production, Parade. The Ballet Russes was renowned in its time for collaborating with other artists (the company also worked with Henri Matisse and Sonia Delaunay) and Parade has been noted for how it democratised the ballet medium.

Parade continues on Smart's exploration of early avant-garde artists, how their work was disrupted and influenced by totalitarianism and war – and how such disruptment can be related to in today's society. 

Sally Smart: Parade arrives at Geelong Gallery on March 19.

Nicola Dowse
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