Snakes and Mirrors

Following its acclaimed, four-month-long run at the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne, Snakes and mirrors – a sublime new body of work from internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Petrina Hicks – is now making its European debut with her show’s opening today at Michael Reid Berlin.

All works from Snakes and mirrors – including this year’s Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize-winning piece, Mnemosyne IV – are now on view at our Berlin gallery.

Hicks’s arrival at Michael Reid Berlin comes after a remarkable year for the artist. In addition to her Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) show and her Korea-Australia Arts Foundation award, it follows the record-breaking secondary sale of her 2005 work Shenae and Jade, followed by another landmark auction result for her 2013 work Venus, and an acclaimed solo exhibition in Perth, Australia. “Petrina Hicks has been at the forefront of a tidal wave of visual change, aesthetically and in terms of market value,” noted Michael Reid OAM on the occasion of the two Deutscher and Hackett auctions and their extraordinary results.

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