The Residents: Act 3: Full House

2020-2022, low-grade and reclaimed materials, objects, and fragments of contemporary culture, dimensions variable.

HIIDDEN, curated by Kath Fries

Rookwood Cemetery

10 Sept - 9 Oct, 2022

 The Residence: Act #3: Full House, plays with absurdist notions of the everyday lived experience. Totemic structures act out as present ‘beings’, as residents, citizens, and co-habitués. They embody fragility and vulnerability, they awkwardly loiter, suspended, interrupted, hover and jostle, rearranged and rescheduled. We are confronted by ourselves, curious to seek who we are, how to behave, and what to value in this familiar yet puzzling contemporary situation.

Juxtaposed readymade, reclaimed objects, and fragments, commonly found around the home and neighborhood complicate the distinctions between the interior and exterior spaces. Mass-produced materials probe the interconnected, commoditized, and hyper-consumerist 21st-century global culture that influences our identity, and manipulates desires, fantasies, fears, and feelings shaping our everyday lives.

Materials act together, unified for a certain time before a shift or shed to new ontological associations, forms, or bodies allowing a visible decay, and entropy to exist in the cycle and passage of time. 

Documentation Philippa Hagon