‘Bathroom Gossip’ Charlie Donaldson & Hamish Lonergan curated by Sophie Rose
‘Now That You’re Here’ Olivia Lacey
Opening event Friday 12 July 2019 6-8pm
Exhibitions run 13-27 July 2019
16 Merivale Street, South Brisbane
‘Bathroom Gossip’ reinstates rumour in architecture. Bringing together the work of architectural graduate Hamish Lonergan and artist Charlie Donaldson, the show includes a 1:1 model of the left bathroom and (faux) archival material exposing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s and Dr Edith Farnworth’s relationship and a wider conspiracy to use modernism as a cultural weapon in the Cold War effort.
Olivia Lacey’s ‘Now That You’re Here’ recreates the space of a karaoke room in order to deconstruct the aesthetics of the stage and examine the paradoxical limitations of self-expression through pop culture. The selected songs bring in themes of place, transporting viewers from the karaoke room to abstract concepts of romanticised places in lyrics at odds with their background imagery.
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