Weaving Myth is an ongoing investigation of contemporary art within the framework of capital, politics and consumption of power. The narratives in the artwork are rooted in the ambiguous relationships between fact and fiction, placed in the crosshairs of historical and modern-day mythologies.
Money is fictitious and used to measure ownership, economic power and false prosperity. The use of paper currency, a masculine domain, of two super powers, has infinite temporal dimensions, connecting histories with the underlying human desire for power on the one hand, while battling the overriding realisation that the building of human relationship is imperative to existence.
Through weaving, an eclectic polarity of ideas is communicated. The work is a cross-cultural study of global significance resonating with concerns that are felt across the globe both in physical terms as well as psychological modes of discourse.
Courtesy of Aicon Gallery, New York
hand-cut and weaved 100 US Dollar bill and 100 Chinese Yuan installed in custom Perspex vitrine as a 3D flying rug
14 x 16.5 x 26 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Nick Mitzevich (Director of the Art Gallery of SA) and Professor Ian Howard (College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
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