Until You Make It
Projectspace, Auckland.
Artists: Shelley Simpson, Sarah Callesen and Deborah Rundle
The exhibition Until you make it consideres how artworks might engage in a kind of critical performance of pressing concerns generated by global capitalism and the march of the machine in the new economy.
Through small acts of aesthetic resistance and subtle provocations the artists sidestep progress and engage in making. Laborious drawings appear to mimic computer-generated imagery, things are pulled apart so that they begin to claim a different territory where their very usefulness is called into question, and objects that appeal to us from the recent past are re-worked, suggesting perhaps a clarion call to action.
The phrase Until you make it conjures a state of process, of active engagement with materials and concept. Although the artists engage with materials in quite different ways, they each produce objects. These are explored/made/created/modified/ through the circular conversations that occur between the object and maker, object and viewer and maker and viewer.
The exhibition Until you make it consideres how artworks might engage in a kind of critical performance of pressing concerns generated by global capitalism and the march of the machine in the new economy.
Through small acts of aesthetic resistance and subtle provocations the artists sidestep progress and engage in making. Laborious drawings appear to mimic computer-generated imagery, things are pulled apart so that they begin to claim a different territory where their very usefulness is called into question, and objects that appeal to us from the recent past are re-worked, suggesting perhaps a clarion call to action.
The phrase Until you make it conjures a state of process, of active engagement with materials and concept. Although the artists engage with materials in quite different ways, they each produce objects. These are explored/made/created/modified/ through the circular conversations that occur between the object and maker, object and viewer and maker and viewer.