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All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed

When

This exhibition has now ended.

Location

The Potter Museum of Art, Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville

All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed traced the genre of the fairy tale, exploring its function in contemporary society.

The exhibition presented contemporary artworks alongside a selection of key historical fairy-tale books, providing reinterpretations of the classic fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and The Little Mermaid, for a 21st-century context.

Featuring international and Australian artists, All the better to see you with explores artists’ use of the fairy tale to express social concerns and anxieties surrounding issues such as the abuse of power, injustice and exploitation.
Fairy tales can comfort and entertain us; they can divert, educate and help shape our sense of the world; they articulate desires and dilemmas, nurture imagination and encapsulate good and evil. All the better to see you with invites us to delve into this shadowy world of ancient stories through the eyes of a diverse range of artists and artworks.


An abstract fabric collage with women bent over

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A photograph of a building's foyer spanning several levels with stained glass window column in the centre

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A close-up photograph of a fabric collage with a figure bent over and wig attached on the left side and a cutout of an eye on blue background in the right half

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

An image of little red riding hood with wolf and plywood sculpture with bare trees in a gallery

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A salon hang of colourful paintings on a red-painted wall

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A photograph of a gallery with a projection of an animation featuring black and white winter landscape

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A photograph of a gallery space with multiple works in different media on the walls

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

A photograph of a venetian blind with the light coming through the perforations in the slats forming the silhouettes of trees

All the Better to See You with: Fairy Tales Transformed, Potter Museum of Art, installation view. Photograph by Christian Capurro.

  1. Banner Image: Allison Schulnik, Eager (still), 2013-2014, clay-animated stop motion video.