LATER this month Peruvian-Australian artist Eduardo Cossio will present Trace of Construction, an exhibition of new photography works at Ellenbrook Arts.

Drawing on his practice as an experimental musician, the exhibition explores performance approaches to image-making, testing ideas of displacement and entanglement between mediums.

Mr Cossio’s imagery starts in the darkroom, a space associated with the unconscious by the Surrealist artists, and with worldbuilding since the early days of photography.

He has re-worked photograms (camera-less photographs) with the addition of props and projections, creating stage-like arrangements that reconfigure the visual field whilst evoking the temporality of performance.

Working at a larger scale than his previous exhibitions, the prints are presented as sculptural objects that respond to the gallery space.

The exhibition will be officially opened at a free event by Goolugatup Heahcote curator Paul Boyé with a performance by Mr Cossio on Zithers and electronics on Friday, March 7 from 6pm to 8pm.

Another free event with an artist talk by Art Gallery of WA curator Robert Cook and a performance by Mr Cossio and Sage Pbbbt on vocals will take place on Saturday, March 15 from 2pm to 4pm.

Trace of Construction will be exhibited at Ellenbrook Arts, 34 Main Street, Ellenbrook from March 8-30 with the gallery open Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 2pm.