Joe Gentry & Jen Mathews
skyscraper, school, shrine, slaughterhouse
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October 2017
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Oct 2017
Gallery 2
skyscraper, school, shrine, slaughterhouse
Joe Gentry & Jen Mathews
5
October 2017
5
October
2017
20
October 2017
Gallery 2
Skyscraper, school, shrine, slaughterhouse.Tomb, shelter, crypt, bunker.Architecture is both the substance and medium of authority. As Benjamin H. Bratton states, ‘there is no house without the one who claims it and there is no law, and no power in fact, without the house which it oversees.’Symbols of desire and violence are suspended within everyday architecture, fixing abstract and discrete definitions of corporeal space into immediate surfaces, volumes, and pathways.To romanticise decay is to delegitimize power and its physical architecture: the composition of signifiers, signs, boundaries, transit zones, everyday commodities, glass windows and iron bars that together form a general economy of retention, resentment, loss, and displacement.
Skyscraper, school, shrine, slaughterhouse.Tomb, shelter, crypt, bunker.Architecture is both the substance and medium of authority. As Benjamin H. Bratton states, ‘there is no house without the one who claims it and there is no law, and no power in fact, without the house which it oversees.’Symbols of desire and violence are suspended within everyday architecture, fixing abstract and discrete definitions of corporeal space into immediate surfaces, volumes, and pathways.To romanticise decay is to delegitimize power and its physical architecture: the composition of signifiers, signs, boundaries, transit zones, everyday commodities, glass windows and iron bars that together form a general economy of retention, resentment, loss, and displacement.
Joe Gentry
Joseph Gentry is a Melbourne-based artist. His work addresses technology cultures and fantasy & sci-fi narratives. Joseph recently graduated with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts, he has had group shows at Bus Projects, George Paton and Margaret Lawrence galleries.
Jen Mathews
Jennifer Mathews is an artist based in Melbourne. In 2016, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts. In 2015, she graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, and was the recipient of the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. Solo exhibitions include Interrupted Meal, Irene Rose, Melbourne, 2018 and City of future excess, FELTspace, Adelaide, 2016. Selected group exhibitions include hangers, A flat shop, Adelaide, 2019; The Present Day Is Surrounding Me, Canberra Grammar School, Canberra, 2019; Smoke Screens, LON Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Optimism & Futility, Irene Rose, Melbourne, 2017 and skyscraper, school, shrine, slaughterhouse, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2017.