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Petra Cortright, CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER cool win 98 themes +country +home +magazine, 2021, digital painting on anodised aluminium, 74.30 x 121.92cm, 1301SW. Image courtesy of the artist and 1301SW, Melbourne.

Petra Cortright, haunted lemon hunted spirit


19 Aug 2023
1301SW 15 Jul - 12 Aug 2023

American Apparel tennis skirts, Lana Del Rey, washed-out digital images à la Terry Richardson, and blogging. The aesthetic markers of the first generation to grow up online are having a renaissance. As younger millennials and older zoomers lean in further to their puer aeternus tendencies and relive their teenage years, the web is awash with nostalgia for the 2010s. In 2006, around the same era, the term “post-internet” was coined by artist Maria Olsson. Post-internet described the internet slipping away from its status as a futuristic and foreign invention, instead becoming both a ubiquitous banality and ever-present spectral force. For this generation, online became a new locus of being, no longer a contained or separate technology. The artists of this era, like any before them, used whatever materials were at their disposal. Thus post-internet art was born.

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