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Current exhibition

“Lumen” – March – November 2021

From the blindingly brilliant to the dim and diffused, White Rabbit’s new exhibition looks to the light to reveal the overlooked and intangible. With works by more than 25 artists from China and Taiwan, visitors will traverse harsh fluorescents, digital realties and literal cracks of lightning to uncover the invisible architecture that shapes our world.

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We are organising a special reward for the most

We are organising a special reward for the most popular visitor posts of LUMEN! When you share an image/video of LUMEN, use the hashtag #whiterabbitgallery to be in the running! 😘🎉😎

Huge thanks to these angels for sharing these fab photos 🤗 @iwandiran @anita_weng @vko______ @th_illest

“I was interested in what would people to expect

“I was interested in what would people to expect (psychologically) when they saw a tangible object in motion, but at the same time to watch the video of the exact same thing with the exact same movement, what would they feel, how do they understand that experience.” Feng Chen

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

📷 Photography: Peter Morgan @petrius

Feng Chen, Moment by Moment, 2019, video, Arduino, servo motor, metronome, 6 minutes 13 seconds, dimensions variable

‘2012 Portraits’ is a large scale video projec

‘2012 Portraits’ is a large scale video projection, approximately 5 metres high by 2 metres wide. The work is initiated by a reverberating bang and an intense flash of light. From out of the blinding brightness, the image of an individual slowly comes into focus. Once the portrait is completely legible, the projection returns to black before the cycle begins again with a different portrait. Whilst gradually acclimatising to the brightness of the display, we recognise our status as passive performers coerced to join Zhang’s play.
The familiar themes of power, submission and control are present in the work, as both subjects and visitors are forced into compliance. Within the socio-political sphere, the video projection references the politics of displaying state leaders, such as the portrait of Mao at Tiananmen Square.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Zhang Peili, 2012 Portraits, 2012, Single channel video, 22 minutes 9 seconds

Dumplings and wine... there's no better way to ind

Dumplings and wine... there's no better way to indulge on a Saturday arvo 🥟🤤

Our Teahouse is open today, for food until 3.30pm and tea until 4.00pm. Capacity is limited at the moment, so please wait to be seated when you arrive. Thank you!

Wei Wei describes himself as a digital artist, int

Wei Wei describes himself as a digital artist, interaction designer and creative technologist with passions for emerging technologies and practical theories. His vision of the future is filled with computational devices with a heightened emotional and spiritual awareness. He aims to leverage his trans-disciplinary studies for social good.
‘Mood Machine’ is an interactive multimedia installation where the audience selects one of eight musical ‘moods’, which is then performed on a singing Tesla coil. Informed by his keen interest in AI and augmented learning, Wei’s installation becomes a conduit between human emotion and machine learning.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Wei Wei, Mood Machine, 2009, interactive installation, dimensions variable

‘Flotage – Tectonics’ is an installation of

‘Flotage – Tectonics’ is an installation of 283 stacked acrylic cubes, each silkscreened with white topographical patterning and illuminated from above. The artists intention was to give poetic form to the abstract ideas of time and memory. ‘The process of this transformation brings us closer to the ambiguity of memory, which is unreliable, selective and driven by change. The lines express the invisible flow of time and space and are like seismic records of the waves of movement on the earth’s crust.’ The pattern whilst based on land elevation maps, also recalls meteorological maps, Japanese Karesansui gardens, ripples in water, fingerprints, the patterns wind makes on snow.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

📷 Photography: Peter Morgan @petrius

Shinji Ohmaki, Flotage – Tectonics, 2013-15, silkscreen print on acrylic, wooden base, 283 cubes each 29.5cm 3

In ‘Karesansui’ large black protrusions grow f

In ‘Karesansui’ large black protrusions grow from the walls and floor of the gallery space, like grossly enlarged follicles of hair; seemingly as hard as rock the installation is made from foam. In Japanese garden design, the ‘dry landscape garden’, or ‘karesansui’ (often called a Zen garden), is made of carefully placed rocks, with sand or gravel raked into patterns intended to represent ripples in water.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Photograhpy: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Aaajiao, Karesansui, 2015, synthetic foam, sponge, metal supports, dimensions variable

“Light, when captured by the camera, changes fro

“Light, when captured by the camera, changes from the moment the photograph is taken. I did quite a lot of research and analysis about advertisement lamp displays and neon advertisement boards. They are everywhere in the world and everywhere in our life. Often, they are broken or in poor condition, but no one bothers to care for them, or to repair them. This may have something to do with the fast pace of life these days and the fact that we choose to leave or buy new things at the smallest sign of trouble. To me, these flaws or imperfections are a source of beauty: just like an abstract painting of city lights.” Chen Wei.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Chen Wei, Today is Unsuitable for Shooting, 2013, archival inkjet print, 100 x 125cm
Chen Wei, Future Modern, 2014, archival inkjet print, 100 x 125cm

Wu Chi-Tsung’s practice spans across different m

Wu Chi-Tsung’s practice spans across different media, including photography, video, installation art, painting and set design. He devotes great attention to the methods used in producing and interpreting images. He combines traditions and contemporary art forms from the East and the West. Daily objects and phenomena are great inspiration for his work, and in turn, what he transforms into poetic imagery. In ‘Crystal City 007’, a light on a motorised, bow-shaped metal arm moves slowly from side-to-side over a collection of clear flat-pack plastic boxes which have been applied to the gallery wall.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Photography: Peter Morgan @petrius

Wu Chi-Tsung, Crystal City 007, 2015, metal track, motor, LED, plastic, dimensions variable

‘Egg Shape No. 1’ sees numerous metal skeleton

‘Egg Shape No. 1’ sees numerous metal skeletons clammer up the ‘yolk’ of the sculpture whilst in ‘Egg Shape No. 2’, babies march purposefully around the core, as small spheres seem to float up the centre. The dead and the newly born seem to march in furious lockstep or to scramble up the egg, determined to reach their goal, yet never breaking out of their prison of perpetual circles.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

📷 Photography: Peter Morgan @petrius

Xu Zhongmin, Egg Shape 1 & 2, 2007, stainless steel, fibreglass, strobe lights, electric motors, 280 x 150 x 150cm

In ‘Writer’s Vessel’, Shyu Ruey-Shiann used

In ‘Writer’s Vessel’, Shyu Ruey-Shiann used sophisticated mechanisms to express the abstraction and complexity of language and the creative process. He views the absolute precision of mechanical movements as an abstract language. This abstract language may convey a living philosophy which, at times, transcends the visual image of the work.

See 'Writer's Vessel on Level 2 of our current exhibition LUMEN. We are open until 5pm today. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Shyu Ruey-Shiann, Writer’s Vessel, 1997-2012, copper tube, pigeon feathers, metal bicycle rim, motor, 30 x 420 x200cm

Put your hands up for @desnortados 🙌🙌🙌

Put your hands up for @desnortados 🙌🙌🙌 Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos!

We are organising a special reward for the most popular visitor posts of LUMEN! When you share an image/video of LUMEN, use the hashtag #whiterabbitgallery to be in the running!

Judith Neilson’s ‘Ming and the White Rabbit’

Judith Neilson’s ‘Ming and the White Rabbit’ book is available for purchase online with delivery AUS wide! Click on the link in our bio and select 'Amazon AU - Purchase White Rabbit Stock Online' to find it 🐇

In Ming and the White Rabbit, Judith Neilson tells the story of a Chinese orphan who rebuilds her broken world with the help of a magical rabbit and a wonderful new family of artists. These engaging characters - passionate, inventive, funny, philosophical - embody all the qualities that make Chinese contemporary art so compelling. On May 12th, 2008, the lives and dreams of many Chinese families were destroyed in a sudden disaster. Ming is their voice. Real friends responded with unhesitating kindness and compassion, giving in ways they had not considered before. For victims, their lives in turmoil, this unselfish generosity was all they had. Written for children and adults, art fans and newcomers to art, Ming is a touching human story that invites us to see the world and artistic creation with fresh eyes. The exquisite sepia illustrations of Wang Xianming make it a work of art in its own right.

Written by Judith Neilson
Illustrations by Wang Xianming

@mirajoksovic reflection in Zhu Changquan's 'Head

@mirajoksovic reflection in Zhu Changquan's 'Head Without Brain 5' 😍

Zhu Changquan is a digital media artist whose practice is preoccupied with the breakdown of illusion and reality. Zhu transforms images of everyday objects through animation, device, painting and other objects to generate what he calls a ‘new narrative form’. He aims to evaluate how we occupy physical and digital spaces. ‘Head without Brain’ addresses the relationship between the physical space that contains the body and the virtual space occupied by text and images.

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Repost: @mirajoksovic

Zhu Changquan, Head Without Brain 3, 2016-17, digital print on lightbox, 160 x 120cm
Zhu Changquan, Head Without Brain 5, 2016-17, digital print on lightbox, 120 x 160cm

"These may be the best dumplings i’ve had... and

"These may be the best dumplings i’ve had... and they’re gluten free!" @rm.foodventures 😘🎉 Thanks for the kind words/cute pic!

Our Teahouse is open today, for food from 11.00am – 3.30pm and tea until 4.00pm. Come and try some of our delicious dumplings 🥟 Capacity is limited at the moment, so please wait to be seated when you arrive. Thank you!

Tianzhuo Chen's 'OM' shining over our Gallery Gift

Tianzhuo Chen's 'OM' shining over our Gallery Giftshop 🚨✨

Tianzhuo Chen’s ironic representation of the sacred Om syllable as an expensive LED – ‘bright –light-means-big- impact–installation’ raises awareness of the decline in spiritual pursuits in the modern urban world where people worship at the altar of materialism. The artist says, “Everything makes more sense in lights.”

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

Tianzhuo Chen, OM, 2016, LED lights, stainless steel, 140 x 302 x 25cm

Li Hui was interested in fusing art with science a

Li Hui was interested in fusing art with science and technology in order to convey truths about human beings and how we perceive our world. In a way, ‘Cage’ acts as a scientific experiment. Visitors are confronted with both a liminal and a powerful visual aesthetic experience. The installation not only makes the visitor ‘inside the cage’ examine their feelings, the ‘outside’ observers, too, can watch the experiment and behaviour of ‘those trapped inside.’ The work is a comment on the boundaries we invent for ourselves and the restrictions caused by our perception of reality.

LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Photography: Joshua Bentley @jbjbj_

Li Hui, Cage, 2006-14, green iodine lasers, fog machine, dimensions variable

‘Twilight is the Ashes of Dusk’ was filmed bet

‘Twilight is the Ashes of Dusk’ was filmed between sundown and dawn on Chang’an Avenue (The Avenue of Eternal Peace), the boulevard that cuts through the centre of Beijing, in front of the Tiananmen Gate and to the north of Tiananmen Square. Ma went to great lengths to avoid capturing any of the symbolic or prominent architecture, instead filming only the famous tungsten light fixtures which adorn the roads in Tiananmen; a subtle tactic to situate the video in a politically loaded location.
“I think the streetlight is another symbol of Chang’an Boulevard because of how all the streetlights along Chang’an Boulevard are really different from the streetlights on other streets or roads of Beijing or of other cities.”

LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

📷 Photography: Peter Morgan @petrius

Ma Qiusha, Twilight is the Ashes of Dusk, 2011, single channel video, 3 minutes 15 seconds

In his two gilded framed video works, Han Jinpeng

In his two gilded framed video works, Han Jinpeng faithfully recreates Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ and Vermeer’s ‘Milkmaid’, costumed as the protagonist in both. In each instance the tranquility of the scenes is slowly but surely disrupted by the natural elements. At first, we catch a glimpse of the most famous paintings captured in classic frames, yet a closer look brings us to the video in which Han re-created the scenarios with himself as the renowned figures.

See these works in motion in our Teahouse! LUMEN is open today from 10am-5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery.

Han Jinpeng, Mona Lisa From Clear Sky to Rain, 2009, video installation, gilt frame, 7 minutes 5 seconds
Han Jinpeng, Milkmaid in a Sandstorm, 2009, video installation, gilt frame, 5 minutes 45 seconds

Zhou Wendou is a multi-media artist with a particu

Zhou Wendou is a multi-media artist with a particular interest in functionality, the mundane and found objects, stating “they are the icons of human civilisation, with inherent social characteristics and cultural values. Products are made depending upon our needs.” In the pop-inspired installation ‘Basketball Hoops’, the metal rims of five hoops have been replaced with neon lights in the colours of red, orange, blue and white. Made in response to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zhou wanted to use the rising popularity of competitive sport to highlight the colossal transformation and ‘Westernisation’ of post-socialist China.

See 'Basketball Hoops' in our Teahouse on the ground floor. LUMEN is open today until 5pm. Mandatory check in via QR code on arrival, no large groups. Due to capacity restrictions, there may be a wait outside the gallery. Please be patient with our staff and check in procedure, we are doing our very best to create a happy and safe environment for everyone.

📷 Repost: @ramenticdining

Zhou Wendou, Basketball Hoops, 2009, neon tubing, synthetic rope, plastic, metal, wood, 5 pieces each 47 x 47 x 62cm

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