WINDOW GALLERY x Visaya Hoffie
Pilfered Pillar
30 August - 2 October 2023
Image: Visaya Hoffie, The shocking discovery (2022), courtesy of the artist. Photo: Louis Lim
The Pilfered Pillar is composed from pieces salvaged for free from Facebook Marketplace to construct a freestanding column. It riffs on the historical role of monumental towers (eg. Tatlin’s Tower) to commemorate the values of a ’brave new age’. Instead, this column harvests references to disposable aspects of the internet and throw-away icons of our own time in a mock veneration of our contemporary values.
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Outer Space Window Gallery
2R-C, 420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
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Visaya Hoffie has developed her work via diverse media and through taking on a range of roles. Her ‘expanded painting’ incorporates sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, design, animation, leatherwork and a range of craft media. She often brings these together in immersive installations that locate the viewer as an essential and performative element in the work. Her work has been described as reflecting wry, amused and often revealing responses to our contemporary cultural landscape and has been exhibited in galleries and pop-ups around the country.
Documentation by Louis Lim