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Lewis Fidock and Joshua Petherick, Character, 2017 animatronic doll, cosmetics, cables 890 (h) x 380 (w) x 360 (d)

Lewis Fidock and Joshua Petherick, Weevils in the Flour
  • Philip Brophy


11 Apr 2020
Gertrude Contemporary 8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020

How to review a Contemporary Art installation? Just dive in. Sink or swim. No one will help you. The signs are never there. What the default position of CA produces—sometimes engineered as a passive-aggressive strategy, sometimes as a desperate avoidance of categorisation—is for the art to obfuscate. It’s a tack that hinges on well-worn rejections of clearly communicating to “the audience”. Fine if the artist has something complex to say, but for over two centuries visual artists have operated at the barely audible threshold of the murmuring intelligentsia.

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