As part of a series of short summer exhibitions, DRAW Space is thrilled to present The Vulnerability Projekt.
What do we think and feel when no one is watching? What provokes us to put pen to paper in those moments of self-reflection?
The Vulnerability Projekt is an ever-evolving installation of journal entries, a collection of penciled private thoughts, feelings and observations. Liliane Spratt began the Projekt in 2022, during an isolating experience in London. Through Instagram, she started posting her own entries, a way of trying to connect with friends and strangers online, wondering if anyone felt how she did.
Now, it is a physical and fragile collection of drawings, lyrics and writings from anonymous individuals from around the world. It aims to grow with each exhibition, always inviting anyone to offer their intimate worlds to the public, inviting audiences to come and receive them. A two way relationship where both artist and audience feel seen and empowered.
The Projekt subverts traditional ideas of art and drawing, rather than asking the artist to create something for the wall and audiences, instead, it looks to share what has already been formed for one’s own eyes.
Join the artist and the DRAW Space community to celebrate The Vulnerability Projekt on opening night, 6-8pm Thursday 1 January. The exhibition will be open 11am-5pm Friday 2 and Saturday 3 January and 12-5pm Sunday 4 January.
Share your thoughts with us
The Vulnerability Projekt invites anyone willing to share their own musings on paper. Any thoughts, desires, dreams, confessions, whether writings or drawings that reveal vulnerabilities, will be kept anonymous, shared during the exhibition and then archived alongside past entries to the Projekt.
Entries may be hand delivered to a drop box at DRAW Space, 31A Enmore Road Newtown NSW 2042 until and during the exhibition, or posted beforehand to PO Box 352 Newtown NSW 2042 Australia
Artist, Liliane Spratt
BIO
Liliane Spratt is a 22 year old multi-disciplinary artist from the inner-west of Sydney. She graduated from the University of Arts London with a BA (Hons) in Acting and Performance earlier this year, and continues to live in London, developing her acting career and The Vulnerability Projekt. She is intrigued by what and whose stories are shared in theatre and art, and is passionate about revealing the processes that lead there through her own work. This has led to her final HSC art project, The Re:Imagined being displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW, a series of cyanotypes, where the process of development was unusual. It more recently has allowed her to delve into writing for theatre alongside her acting - her debut play was in a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court in December 2024 - a play which merged Verbatim and fiction and was heavily influenced by the conversations that were had around The Vulnerability Projekt, and people exploring their ‘mess.’ Her love for deconstructing formed and structure performances and artworks has led her to this Projekt.