The Exhibition, 2024
(Printed Catalogue)
Available upon request
Since postmodernism and the ‘end of art’ the idea of putting random objects in the gallery environment became normalised to the point of little or no reaction. From Duchamp’s Urinal, to Tracey Emin’s bed, to accepting the sale of a £200,000 banana taped to a wall.
The purpose of this exhibition catalogue is to recontextualise and question the society of the spectacle in and outside concrete gallery spaces by demonstrating a pseudo-reality of language and spectatorship in the artworld. Humour is used to rehumanise the gallery experience, as passive gazing and prolonged silences between strangers tend to dominate the ability to absorb and critique an artwork, no matter what nonsensical justification there may be for it.
As contemporary society scorns AI’s replacement of creativity and thought, I question if we ourselves are at times just as automated.
