The images that filmmaker-photographer, Gerard O’Connor, and set designer-prop maker, Marc Wasiak, are unignorable. Extraordinarily ornate, exquisitely beautiful, tinged with humour and often provocative. Their signature is exploring the peculiarities of human behaviour and changing social mores.

Their latest exhibition, tableaux@GerardandMarc, is on show at Victorian Pride Centre, a carefully constructed, highly detailed photographic tableaux. Each image is based on in-depth research of the period, subject and site, but reinterpreted through the eyes of contemporary ways of seeing. From Victorian funerals to garden parties, their work transforms everyday moments into grand dramas. 

“The themes we explore include the sensuality that lies beneath the coolest exterior; the hypocrisy of the pious; the corruption of the powerful; the violence seething below the veneer of civilisation; the calamities that befall the most rational plans. We explore and celebrate the diversity of humanity across age, gender, sexual orientation and cultural background presenting the chaos of interactions in aesthetically sophisticated but narratively unexpected,” they commented.

tableaux@GerardandMarc is exhibiting at the Victorian Pride Centre, 79-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, 11 June – 19 July 2026.