Hyper-Currents and Short Circuits

In this digital collaboration, Lawrence and Louise have mapped the Current Gallery in 3D and have used it as the canvas to explore themes of unreality.

Images saturate our daily lives, creating simulacra of things that never existed, and spinning fantasies that can just as easily hurt us as provide entertainment and escape. So too our understanding of what it is to be an embodied human is changing in the virtual world.

Responding to a societal moment where it has become increasingly difficult to determine real from fake; and does that even matter? This exhibition attempts to hold a broken mirror to our complex world, finding both humour and terror in the multiplicitous reflections.

Louise Rae (@louiseraeartaus) is an American-Australian sculptor interested in the impact of patriarchal structures on women’s bodies. She has been working with a physical surrogate figure over the past year, reflecting an autobiographical vision of an ageing, crip female. This surrogate has recently entered virtual space where the rules have changed.