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.
Read “Dictionary of MIKMAK” by Michael Newall here.
The Little Machine is supported by Renew Adelaide and City of Adelaide
Photography: Sam Roberts unless otherwise noted
Michael Kutschbach
bathyphYSabRyozoA (after b-conifera, aka – the Flying Spaghetti Monster)
2024
Photography: Michael Kutschbach
Simone Kennedy
Free Flight (1) (Re-imagining the mother)
2015
Entochrysis Pins (3000)
$4500
or $450 per month with Art Money
Louise Meuwissen
See yourself in it – Wrestle with it
2018
Found knitted polyester/cotton balacla- va, reclaimed beads (glass, Swarovski crystals, plastic) mirrored glass, high vis reflective ribbon, cotton, cotton thread, polyester thread, lurex thread, nylon thread, polystyrene, cotton wadding, reclaimed nylon stocking, adhesive, powder coated stainless steel
NFS
Chris De Rosa
[left] Rosa porifera
[middle] Giallo porifera 2
[right] Giallo porifera 1
2022
Glazed earthenware, polymer paint, wire, aerosol spray, varnish
$330 each
Chelsea Farquhar
Green Corset
2022
Satin, rope, eyelets, thread
NFS
Simone Kennedy
Six Months (Re-imagining Pre-Natal Attachment)
2018
Mixed media
POA (sold as group of 26)
Chris De Rosa
[hanging] Porifera/spaghetti vedura 2023
Perforated papier-mâché, etching, polymer paint, aerosol spray, pu foam, sand, glass beads, plastic string, wire, varnish
$400
[front] Barrel porifera 2023
Papier-mâché, spongia prints, etching, latex, polymer paint, aerosol spray, sand, glass beads, wire, varnish
$4800
or $480 per month with Art Money
Chris De Rosa
Giallo vase sponge
2022
Papier-mâché, polymer paint, aerosol spray, varnish
$350
Simone Kennedy
Meet My Mum Larva (stage 1) Larva (stage 2) Larva (stage 3) Pupa Glasses
2018
$6500
or $650 per month with Art Money
Chris De Rosa
Salacia’s Pearl
2023
Papier-mâché, polymer paint, aerosol spray, sand, glass beads, wire, pu foam, rope, varnish
$1500
or $150 per month with Art Money
Chris De Rosa
Demisponge
2024
Giclee print, polymer paint, pigment stain on perforated Hahnemühle paper
$1600
or $160 per month with Art Money