Paradise is where I am
DEATH BE KIND
Wednesday 03 November 2010 to Sunday 21 November 2010
“… paradise is where I am” is the final line of the poem The Worldly One by Voltaire (1736) and the title of this exhibition that brings together three distinct bodies of work that each touch upon experiences of anticipation, fear and ones own mortality.
The Worldly One uses reason with satire to argue that happiness is a state of mind fixed on the materiality of the present rather than a promised heavenly utopia located in the abstract of the ever after. “… paradise is where I am” is about the here and now, the vantage point from which we remember the past and imagine the future.
Friday 6-8pm
Sat + Sunday 2-6pm
Location
DEATH BE KINDUpstairs @ The Alderman, 134 Lygon Street
Brunswick Precinct
Victoria
Australia
