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In AdvanceIn Advance explores the concept of the readymade gesture within the context of contemporary art and broader culture.
Exploiting the slippages between sculptural and photographic practices, it looks at different forms of domestic and commercial architecture as sites of play and transgression.
Reflecting on modes of living, consumption, and signification, In Advance examines the performance of subjectivity within the realm of the everyday and the promises of a utopian future.
Stephen Birchs sculptures are fabrications of everyday things gone slightly awry.
The objects flawed appearances lend a strange vulnerability to their existence, making them appear somehow more real than the things they represent.
Alternately, Vanila Netto uses performance and photography to transform the discarded or obsolete refuse of consumption into new objects of utility.
Paul Saints brickwork sculptures also misappropriate issues of form and function.
Referencing building supports used in post-war Australian housing, his works engage with domesticity in relation to its containment within a micro-economic scale.
Geoff Kleems large-scale photographic mural explores the impact of Modernist architecture and design.
Focusing on the site of the contemporary art gallery, his work considers the gallery as an architectural support and (to misquote Le Corbusier), as a machine for exhibiting in.
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