Sliver
Solo exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane.
3-27 Feb 2020
This exhibition was the outcome of a one-month residency onsite.
This site-specific wallpaper was created and installed gradually over the course of my four-week residency at the museum. Taking as it’s starting point food images cut from 60’s and 70’s cookbooks, the wallpaper shows a crowd of faces, each with it’s own material pallete, emotion, and personality. The food images are anchored partially in their old nostalgic life as advertisements for recipes, and partially in their new role as faces leading to personalities.
The faces are in some ways grotesque, with their slimy, gelatinous, greasy, or saucy skins; a mirror to how messy our own bodies can be in the process of consumption and digestion. The wallpaper is temporary; it will be destroyed at the end of the exhibition, reminding us that food in its real and print form cannot be enjoyed forever.
This exhibition and residency project was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
