Dissimulation of class

low-grade and reclaimed materials from contemporary culture, dimensions variable

North Sydney Art Prize at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability

14 - 29 May 2022

Dissimulation of class plays with poetics, absurdist notions, and confusion of the contemporary lived experience. We are confronted, curious to seek how to behave and what to value in this familiar yet puzzling current situation.

Mass-produced materials and forms probe the interconnected, commoditized, and hyper-consumer 21st-century global culture. The reclaimed materials invoke the socio-cultural excesses of late capitalism. Value in all material things brings equality and a regenerative process to the discarded object. The historicity of thought, labour, and use are infused in socio-cultural materials. Reclaimed objects voice a unique existence and give visibility to the unseen affect of subjective lives.

The external material signifiers may enact an embodied memory, a trigger that activates a sensation/perception in the mind/body for an internal affected experience. By stimulating matter and memory the viewing audience, historical site, and installation works convene at the point of interconnection where the past, present, and future simultaneously exist.

Documentation Philippa Hagon