MOORE CONTEMPORARY welcomes you back to visit the gallery following the local lifting of COVID- 19 restrictions. Before the resumption of solo exhibition projects, the winter program provides the opportunity to view individual art works new to the gallery or selected works from the stockroom in rotated presentations.

The Embrace takes its cue from the title of PILAR MATA DUPONT'S video of the same name, and might seem apt in the return to gallery showings in the time of a world-wide pandemic that has decreed physical distancing. Filmed from a residency in North and South Korea, the central focus of the film is a staged embrace between two women, symbolising the optimism yet sense of disjunction that re-unification and reconciliations can bring. The inherent emotiveness is beautifully captured and enhanced by the high-key colours saturating the screen.

Corresponding with this are luminous paintings including a suite of Spectrumfigure works by JOHN YOUNG and a large painting by MARION BORGELT. A new work from the Joiner Series by DAN McCABE is featured and floor works by MARITA FRASER and ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH offer a three dimensional counterpoint, and in the case of the bronze sculpture from Abdullah, an embrace of a different kind.