FLAT PACK

Dylan Batty You too can do this, 2017. Kalanjay Dhir Hydoyoga (3-body), 2017.

Dylan Batty You too can do this, 2017. Kalanjay Dhir Hydoyoga (3-body), 2017.

Dylan Batty, Eugene Choi, Kalanjay Dhir and Nina Dodd.

29th May - 9th June

Opening 29th May 6pm

Fold it up like a ZIP file and send it across the world or to your neighbour. IKEA’s global & domestic colonialism is attractive in more ways than just its price.

Flat Pack is a group show including Sydney-based emerging artists Dylan Batty, Eugene Choi, Kalanjay Dhir and Nina Dodd, featuring work appropriating the imperative design ideology of the ‘flat pack’ into their respective practices; That is, the aesthetic typified by IKEA, one that promises a democratic assemblage and most importantly an ease of production and mass-dispersion.

The work being developed for the show aims to dissolve the definitions of the transit and storage of commercial art objects. Eugene Choi’s adaptation will be a literal disassembling of existing works presented as being packed and ready to be moved on; while Dylan Batty’s adaptation combines video documentation of transit between the financial capital and political capital, a process concealed from public view, aestheticised for ease of consumption. No longer are artworks produced solely for viewings

Kalanjay Dhir is attempting to produce a dehydrated self-portrait by unpacking self-imaging in relation to the Western (via Global South) commercialisation of fitness. Nina Dodd in her post-digital collages, uses the displacement and reconfiguration of images and objects to think about cross-historical linkages making direct reference to the shop front gallery.

Flat Pack-ing as a school of design has quietly become reflective of the compressive thinking that now guides the market, public and private spaces.


Flat pack >> unpack >> repackage.

Dylan Batty                                   Eugene Choi                                  Kalanjay Dhir                               Nina Dodd

You too can do this                        I once was an elegant Pidgeon     Hydroyoga (3 Body)                    Flat pack, my love.

                                                      in a performence for my friend

 
 
 

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres.

Tributary Projects acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters in which we operate, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, as well as the Ngarigu people and others who traded on, traveled through, and connected with this country, and continue to do so. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders and acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.