27 April – 1 June
Opening Friday 26 April 6pm
With
Chris De Rosa
Chelsea Farquhar
Simone Kennedy
Michael Kutschbach
Louise Meuwissen
The works that make up Mik-mak present objects, bodily forms, and natural elements distorted, magnified, combined and transformed into wildly-coloured, textured, opulent and glittering forms. The enigmatic title Mik-mak is a Dutch word similar in meaning to the English mishmash. It also operates as an abbreviation of micropsia-macropsia, a pair of neurological conditions affecting perception. For those who experience micropsia, objects appear diminished in size, while in macropsia, objects appear magnified. The exhibition draws inspiration from the curator’s own experiences of micropsia and macropsia, presenting an unsettling, phantasmagorical aesthetic in which body, identity and self are shown as labile and provisional, in a permanent state of becoming.
The Little Machine is supported by Renew Adelaide and City of Adelaide