Love's labours found in journey through feelings How to feel (still from video), by David Rosetzky. From exhibition at AGNSW called We Used to Talk About Love. IN a new exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of NSW, 11 contemporary artists are bound together by love - the theme of love, that is. Its title, We used to talk about love, is a "riff" on the short story by Raymond Carver, What we talk about when we talk about love, curator Natasha Bullock says. In the Raymond Carver story, the atmosphere becomes knife-edged as two married couples slam down shots of gin while arguing over the tawdry, violent details of their former marriages. One of the women insists her former husband showed his love by physically abusing her and eventually committing suicide over her. One of the men contrasts his bitterness for his former wife with the story of how an elderly couple is horribly injured in a car accident, and how their touchingly romantic love plays out as they recover in hospital. The point of the Carver story is that "love remains elusive," Bullock says. Across photomedia, collage, sculpture and multimedia installation, We used to talk about love addresses the proposition that love encompasses joy, elation, longing, loss, melancholy and memory. Tim Silver's work Untitled (Rory grown up ...) is a life-size body-cast made entirely out of blue watercolour pigment. The figure will slowly decompose as droplets of water fall on its upturned face, and during the exhibition Silver will sometimes be seen documenting that process with his camera. David Rosetzky's work is a two-hour film called How to feel. It shows three couples in choreographed movements expressive of various relationships. Familial bonds are explored in Justene Williams' eight-channel video, Milk seeped in bread and rocked the leg, which features the artist and her parents interacting with symbols of home and sustenance. Art Gallery Of NSW, Art Gallery Rd, The Domain; tomorrow until April 21, free, artgallery.nsw.gov.au