Jasmine Babayan’s show at Peepshow has stayed with me since the opening last weekend and more so with the sad news of the death of Melbourne artist and lecturer Cate Consandine this week. The reciprocal beauty and terror of the black water quietly holding its ground in the basement, and the mould on the painting hovering above, conjure a kind of silent and seductive horror dressed up to beguile and placate us from the inescapable fragility of our lives.
“…it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism”
Included in Black.2 | on view until 13 December 2025.
Mark Hislop
“…it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism” 2021
Synthetic polymer paint on acrylic sheet
54 x 42cm
Courtesy of the artist & Void_Melbourne
Photo: Andrew Curtis Photography
@andrew.curtis.photography
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Black.2
15 November - 13 December 2025
Black.2
15 November-13 December 2025
Opening celebration, Saturday 15 November 4.00 pm onwards.
Mark Hislop
“…it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism”
Synthetic polymer paint on acrylic sheet
54 x 42cm
Concluding this week at Void_Melbourne, Mark Hislop's State to State.
Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 5 pm or by appointment.
State to State brings together works that explore transformation through two distinct but related approaches. The first involves the literal movement of materials— fragments of the artist’s studio wall transported and hidden in new locations, creating permanent physical exchanges between distant spaces. The second explores transformation through drawing, where images undergo changes of state: breath progressively obscures an image, a photograph slowly dissolves into abstraction through repeated acts of mark-making.
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Mark Hislop
State to State
11 October - 08 November 2025
Continuing this week, Mark Hislop's State to State. Thursday - Saturday | 12 - 5 pm or by appointment.
Mark Hislop
My punctuation is my breath, 2019 Graphite on paper, 12 parts, 21 x 26 cm each.
Photo: Void_Melbourne & Courtesy of the artist.
My punctuation is my breath (2019) is a twelve-part drawing sequence that engages with the literary legacy of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer who conceptualised literature as process, an arduous mode of searching rather than resolution. Self-identified as an anti-writer, Lispector's work interrogated structures of power and gender through attention to subjective interiority.
In this work Lispector's image moves through states of visibility, progressively obscured by the very breath that enables her literary voice. The form of the drawing charts a movement from presence to absence. The recurring image of Lispector at her typewriter becomes increasingly obscured by her own breath— a contradictory and seemingly ironic gesture that keeps the momentum of the drawing moving forward whilst at the same time effacing the drawing, reflecting the writer's, and the artist’s, complex relationship with language and meaning.
Mark Hislop.
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Mark Hislop
State to State
11 October - 08 November 2025
Continuing this week at Void_Melbourne, Mark Hislop's State to State. Thursday - Saturday | 12 - 5 pm or by appointment.
Photo: Void_Melbourne & Courtesy of the artist.
To request our catalogue, email or DM the gallery.
Mark Hislop
State to State
11 October - 08 November 2025
Mark Hislop's State to State continues this week.
Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 5 pm or by appointment.
Mark Hislop
My punctuation is my breath, 2019
graphite on paper
17 x 26 cm each
Mark Hislop
It is to the air that I dedicate myself, portrait 2025
Graphite on paper
32 × 22 cm
Courtesy of the artist & Void_Melbourne.
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Mark Hislop
State to State
11 October - 08 November 2025
