Zoe Croggon
miart
4-6 April 2025
VIP preview April 3, 2025 upon invitation
Allianz MiCo Central
viale Scarampo, MilanO

We're pleased to announce our participation in miart, Italy's international modern and contemporary art fair, where we will present a solo exhibition by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon. Croggon works primarily in collage and photomontage, her works contemplate the role we play in our environment and how deeply our surroundings inform the cadence of our lives.

Zoë Croggon’s half life examines the everyday choreography of the body as defined by work. Created using security footage of the artist at her day job, this series of photomontages considers how repetitive daily work dictates and deteriorates the body. half life observes work as a way of mapping the body, sometimes showing the artist completing tasks at work, unaware of the camera, sometimes watching her performing for the camera, quietly severing the body’s compliance with work.
Using stills taken from the sixteen security cameras at the artist’s workplace across a three month period, this work questions the unblinking eye of the camera and its unrelenting observation.
What do we do with the perpetual generation of images that are not meant to be seen?
half life considers how the advent of photography has accelerated the age of surveillance, inverting its tireless gaze by mining its own archive.

Zoë Croggon has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Peckham 24 (London), Silver Eye Centre for Photography (Pittsburgh), Perth Centre for Photography, the Melbourne Art Fair, and has participated in group exhibitions at Heide Museum of Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Samstag Museum of Art, Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She is the recipient of the Maddocks Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), Asia- Pacific Photobook Prize (2015), and the ARTAND Australia Contemporary Art Award (2014). Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, MUMA, MAPh, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Horsham Regional Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery and Artbank. Two books of Croggon’s work have been published: Arc (Perimeter Editions, 2015) and How to Cut an Orange (Perimeter Editions, 2024).