‘Without, who I am' is Rebecca Wallis’s first major solo exhibition in Melbourne. It consists of a body of paintings that are concerned with absence. There is little superficial painterly noise or drama to these works. Instead the artist unsteadies the familiar and the quotidian to suggest what is dismissed or misunderstood - the otherness of a painting, that is the void. Surface, sides and supports are conflated. There’s a vulnerability to this untethered transparency. Wallis - in taking away the familiar - leaves us with a vacuum and the unseen becomes seen. Through this absence they question the illusion of separation between viewer and viewed, between subject and object, self and other. We welcome you to join us for opening celebrations on Saturday 9 November 2-4pm.