Exhibition title The White Room
Curator Sean Morris
Participating artists Natalie Rosin, Avi Amesbury, Tony Bond, Somchai Charoen, Lynda Draper, Merran Esson, Danica Firulovic, Vicki Grima, Shaun Hayes, Ingrid , Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Bronwyn Kemp, Chantal Labbe, Machico Motoi, Cherie Peyton, Simon Reece and Jo Wood.
Date 1 - 25 March 2017
Location Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst (Sydney)
Artist statement
"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth - it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true” - Baudrillard 1988
I’m experiencing an existential crisis. What if our world were a simulation, our creator a far more intelligent human? When technology grows to a point of sophistication where we can perform our own simulated world to observe. Does this new world we’ve birthed develop and reach a stage where an additional simulated environment is created? Generations of simulations, how are we the exception?
Maybe a more important question is: does being a simulation matter? Should we rather abandon truth to focus on meaning?
‘Simulacrum in white’ aims to present a ceramic simulation of my own creation, a white ceramic world. At times there are models of buildings we recognise from our own built environment. How do we distinguish between artefact and simulacrum? Is that question a concern anymore? What if the building is the model, while the sculpture is the architectural conclusion?
Curator Sean Morris
Participating artists Natalie Rosin, Avi Amesbury, Tony Bond, Somchai Charoen, Lynda Draper, Merran Esson, Danica Firulovic, Vicki Grima, Shaun Hayes, Ingrid , Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Bronwyn Kemp, Chantal Labbe, Machico Motoi, Cherie Peyton, Simon Reece and Jo Wood.
Date 1 - 25 March 2017
Location Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst (Sydney)
Artist statement
"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth - it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true” - Baudrillard 1988
I’m experiencing an existential crisis. What if our world were a simulation, our creator a far more intelligent human? When technology grows to a point of sophistication where we can perform our own simulated world to observe. Does this new world we’ve birthed develop and reach a stage where an additional simulated environment is created? Generations of simulations, how are we the exception?
Maybe a more important question is: does being a simulation matter? Should we rather abandon truth to focus on meaning?
‘Simulacrum in white’ aims to present a ceramic simulation of my own creation, a white ceramic world. At times there are models of buildings we recognise from our own built environment. How do we distinguish between artefact and simulacrum? Is that question a concern anymore? What if the building is the model, while the sculpture is the architectural conclusion?
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