Black Lunch

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5 Sep – 15 Sep 2001

Amanda Newall

Inspired by zombies and the undead, Amanda referenced bodily states between life and death.

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The space was eerily lit by the cream striped wallpaper boarding up the windows. Looking down from around the door was a family of portraits in heavy-looking gilded frames. These images were painted copies of decaying characters uplifted from zombie movies. In the corner opposite, was the ‘skin’ of a creature with a mask-like face, lambskin growths, and sharp red fingernails attached to arm-length white gloves.

At the narrow end of the gallery, brightly coloured poppies waved back and forth, providing a vivid foreground to the disturbing actions of the creature behind – a video projection of the embodied ‘skin’, awkwardly unwrapping cling-wrapped objects and attacking them with an over-sized knife and fork

Interested in new and experimental artists attacking the boundaries of contemporary art, the Damage series (September – June 2001) sought to delineate some of the current grounds of confrontation through experimental and subversive work.