white rabbit gallery hota

At the Home of the Arts (HOTA), on the edge of Gold Coast, This Moment: Highlights from the White Rabbit Collection—suggests the fleeting present, though the works within seem to belong equally to memory and to prophecy. Drawn from the holdings of the White Rabbit Collection, the exhibition assembles more than forty works by twenty-six artists: images that move and images that remain still, chambers of light, and sculptures whose scale obliges the body to acknowledge them. One might say that they constitute not merely an exhibition but a system, one whose geometry is defined as much by space as by art.

At the centre of the white gallery, there is a room that is black. It is not merely a room but a device for perception. The visitor, accustomed to the neutrality of the museum’s light, suddenly encounters a dark nucleus—an interior that seems less constructed than discovered, like a cavern found inside an otherwise rational building. As one moves through this sequence, the black chamber alters in meaning. At first it appears as an unknowable object placed in a field of light; later it reveals itself as the centre from which the exhibition quietly radiates. Its mystery is not solved, only approached.