Sofitel Hotel on Collins St, Sofi’s Lounge and main lobby, Melbourne, 1 July – 2 September 2008
The Stranger’s Eye, Curated by Donna Brett, Peleton Gallery, Chippendale, 1 – 24 July 2010
A series of photographs exploring the liminal spaces of hotel rooms.
From the melancholic to the meditative, and the contemplative to the voyeuristic Anne Zahalka’s photographs add dimension to seemingly benign and ordinary moments experienced within the four walls of a hotel room. Juxtaposed against these interior spaces are breathtaking views of the city setting out themes of alienation and desire within the hotel suite. Press Release
In Hotel Suite, Zahalka takes the alienating space of the hotel room and gives it a twist. The viewer of the photograph becomes the voyeur and the guest becomes the object of our gaze, seemingly trapped in the non-place of a hotel. Notions of alienation, transgression, desire and adventure are explored through the mediums of photography and film focusing on several individuals in various states of psychological unraveling that the viewer experiences through the processes of surveillance.
The Stranger’s Eye Catalogue
Room 4729, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3721 view to Exhibition Building, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3721(with artwork by Lyndell Brown & Charles Green), Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4212 view to Treasury Gardens (left panel), Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3905, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4212 view to Treasury Gardens (right panel), Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3905 view to Fitzroy Gardens, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3905, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4117 (with artwork by John Brack), Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4513 (with artwork by Pat Brassington), Hotel Suite, 2008
Fitzroy Gardens at Night, Hotel Suite, 2008
Ladies, Level 35, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4927 view to Melbourne Cricket Ground, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4927 view to Rod Laver Arena, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4927 view to Federation Square, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4927 view to South Bank, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 5053, Hotel Suite, 2008
Atrium, Level 50, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4321 (with artwork by Vanila Netto), Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 3621, Hotel Suite, 2008
Room 4212 with bellboy, Hotel Suite, 2008
Hotel Suite, Sofi’s Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne, 2008
Hotel Suite, Sofi’s Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne, 2008
Hotel Suite, Sofi’s Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne, 2008
