MONUMENTAL EFFECT

The works in this exhibition utilize scale, materials and processes to question ideas of monumental in contemporary culture and art. Have traditional meanings of the monumental been knocked from their plinths in favour of the temporal, the assembled and the found?

Reduced and reproduced in a mommento, keepsake or souvenir or venerated as a relic on public display. Rememberance is the monuments central role, generational memory, national memory and personal memory. In 1927 Robert Musil suggested that for the society for which the monument is erected, familiarity undermined the monuments purpose. In his famous essay Monuments his quotable statement “there is nothing so invisible as a monument” suggests the monument is an object of forgetting rather than remembering.

Artists: Alex Rizkalla, Catherine Clover, Ceri Hann, Claire Lambe, Dani Hakim, David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton, Deborah Kelly, Elvis Richardson, Greg Richards, Louise Paramor, Michael Needham, Nana Ohnesorge, Nat Thomas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Nick Waddell, Nicki Wynnychuk, Raafat Ishak, Raquel Ormella, Sadie Chandler, Sarah CrowEST, Sarah Goffman, Simon Zoric, Stephen Garrett, Toby Pola, Veronica Kent and in the office space Jane Brown.