Berney-Gibson
Selected work:
Homecoming Queen
Green Plates
Goat Rodeo
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Goat Rodeo —
Airspace Projects
Solo show in Deep Space at ARI Airspace projects.
Marrickville, Gadigal, Sydney
Goat Rodeo (Installation view #1)
Goat Rodeo explores the continuous multiplicities of ‘doing’ and the fluctuating superstructures that guide our development. Imagery of constructed space is gridded onto swaths of animal skins; collated and cleaned until they are something else. Our agency in change is limited, and what is next is uncertain.
The collection is a composite of the notions behind craft and unrecognised labour - the marriage between decorative and functional. The interplay between each object plays with the historiography of class and culture, similarly cut and cleaned into a bankable commodity. After assimilation all we are left with is the comforting experience of ‘functioning’ society. Yet our shoes, formed by unseen hands, are eventually worn down with steps to the bus. You are functionally complicit, and ultimately helpless. All we can do is watch.
Goat Rodeo (Installation view #2)
Goat Rodeo (Installation view #1)
Bimbofication Septet, 2021, Solvent on Automobile Interior Leather, Cork Floor Tile
Descent, 2021, Solvent on Sheep Leather, Titanium Eyelets
Goat Rodeo (Installation view #3)
Structure & Structure (Fergus’ Version), 2021, Solvent on Goat Leather, 11.5 x 17.5 cm.
Detritus, 2021, Solvent on Automobile Interior Leather, Cork Floor Tile, 30 x 30cm.
Structure & Structure (Fergus’ Version), 2021, Solvent on Goat Leather, 11.5 x 17.5 cm.
Detritus, 2021, Solvent on Automobile Interior Leather, Cork Floor Tile, 30 x 30cm.