The exhibition, Synaptic Bliss, (24 March to 29 April) features a series of digital prints and video projection by the New York based duo whose 15-year collaboration has produced a significant and fascinating body of work now held in many important collections around the world, including the National Gallery of Australia.

Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher are widely regarded as pioneers in the field of digital photography with dozens of solo and group exhibitions to their credit at such prestigious venues as the Photographers' Gallery in London, the Venice Biennale, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, National Gallery in Berlin and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Throughout their artistic journey together they have explored their interest in blurring the distinctions between the human body and its environment, the exterior and the interior as well as the organic and the artificial, with often startling, always mesmerising results.

The works featuring in Synaptic Bliss, an ongoing series begun in 2003, are no exception. Featuring magical landscapes of intricately layered patterns, shimmering texture and exuberant color, the exhibition includes the beautiful Nocturnes and Odes as well as a new single-channel video projection, to receive its world premiere at Artereal. The exhibition also features a selection of digital images from Aziz+Cucher's 1999/2000 Interiors series of extraordinary 'skin-covered' rooms – strange prosthetic environments in which human skin becomes a reflective surface in the same way as certain insects of the forest reflect their immediate surroundings.

Aziz+Cucher's Synaptic Bliss marks a prestigious beginning for Artereal. Located within a heritage fire station in Darling Street Rozelle, Artereal will continue to present an exciting program of contemporary and experimental exhibitions by both upcoming and established artists and curators, including substantial international content.

Aziz+Cucher —
Synaptic Bliss
24 March – 29 April 2006
Artereal Gallery
747 Darling Street, Rozelle, Australia

Aziz+Cucher are available for interview. Please contact Sue Couttie for more information, images or to arrange interviews.
Email scouttie@bigpond.com
Phone (03) 5752 1160

Aziz+Cucher website
www.azizcucher.net