Haydens presents Décollage, a new exhibition by Rudi Williams. Considering impermanence and the pervasiveness of imagery, Williams focuses on worn street posters to contemplate the extent advertising imagery reflects, amplifies and sometimes eerily predicts the zeitgeist.

Together the selection of works employ repetition, and an allusion to visual trickery where Williams has used deliberately crude ‘burning and dodging’ darkroom techniques, to consider erasure and the interpretation of images when taken out of context.

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Born in Italy, 1993, Rudi Williams is an artist and teacher based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice is centred around learning historic and contemporary image-making processes to create works from her archive of still and moving, analogue and digital images which the artist has been making since 2008. Williams’ exhibitions often pair and contrast images taken at different times in disparate places, with varying photographic forms to contemplate concepts of memory, pace, the passing of time and the archive.

Recent exhibitions and public commissions include Mirror, Mirror, Sutton Gallery, 2024, The National 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, 2023, Melbourne Now: Slippery Images, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2023; Vantage Point (public art commission for Metro Tunnel), Melbourne, 2021; unfixed: σκιά σκιά σκιά ombra ombra ombra shadow shadow shadow, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2021.

Williams has been a studio artist at Haydens since 2020.