Exhibition dates: Wed 20 Jan - Sun 31 Jan , 2021
Space 1
Decadence
Asha Sym and Jake Steele
Decadence: extravagance, luxury and self-indulgence with a sense of moral decline Here to challenge your idea of what sustainable fashion looks like.
A collaboration where photography, fashion and ethics are explored by Jake Steele and Asha Sym through couture. The natural environment is dramatic in landscape, colour, scale and originality which is reflected in the garments. As global warming becomes a bigger issue, we as people have to acknowledge how we are contributing to the acceleration of consumption of non renewable resources and the destruction of the natural world.
Typically nylon clothing takes 200 years to break down in landfill; meanwhile, few consider composting and reuse of the natural fibre garments. ‘Decadence’ explores the interplay between how people could contribute to the preservation and reparation of the natural environment in a time when it seems all we are doing is destroying it.
You will be made to ask yourself “what is value?” Is value finding pieces that you can keep forever; or is it finding the cheapest item you can? How is value created and measured? Can we start consuming fashion in a more responsible way where value for one person doesn’t mean at the detriment to the environment or to the people making our clothes?
Behind oil and gas, the fashion industry is the second biggest contributor to global pollution, how can we change these statistics?
Space 2
Reaching Place
Kate Matthews
Comfort is uncomfort, known is unknown.You're left without reference, you're left all alone.
Reaching Place presents my most recent exploration into the experiential aspects of public space. Old ways of seeing and being just do not apply to 2020. Moments of hesitation burst into frantic movement, then quiet stillness. My chemicals have failed these images, as well as my shutter.
As a Canberra based artist I pick apart our carefully planned places, commonly using photomontage to reflect mismatching identity. Please, play with your thoughts as I have played with these spaces.
