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Merlin Carpenter, Room Based, installation view, 2021.

Merlin Carpenter, Room Based
  • Vincent Le


10 Jul 2021
Guzzler 26 Jun - 12 Jul 2021

Room Based is Merlin Carpenter’s first Australian solo exhibition at Guzzler, curated by David Homewood, Luke Sands and Alex Vivian out of their Rosanna share house. In their small backyard shed turned meticulously white-walled but still dirt-floored gallery, they have faithfully followed Carpenter’s managerial orders to fill the space with fifteen European-style orange and silver traffic cones purchased out of their own pocket in a five by three symmetrical arrangement.

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