Archive for August, 2007
Jamin - Devonport Regional Gallery
First We Take Paris… Then We Take The World
Opening 6pm Friday 7 September 2007
Until 7 October 2007
Jamin is the selected artist for this years Devonport Regional Gallery Solo Commission Project.
“”In a fusion of front-page juxtapositions spawned by the ‘news of the day’ during the development of these new works, Paris Hilton has become the hero, the enemy, the metaphor and the motivation. In the sinister Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies and Save the Entire Planet, Paris appears brainwashed. Empty and vacant, a container for meaning. John Howard appears intrinsically aware of both Paris’s awesome power as a vehicle for any message imposed upon her, and his own control over the Australian people and relative invulnerability. Howard cackles menacingly skyward, neck muscles taught and constricted with the power and testosterone of patriarchy. Paris, or perhaps popular culture, has become Howard’s secret weapon.”
Excerpt from catalogue essay One Night In Paris, by Scot Cotterell.
Click here to see all the images from the exhibition.
America, Fuck Yeah! 2007 Spray enamel and oil paint on aluminium 180 x 180 cm