From Pillar to Post
This exhibition addressed the unique physical peculiarities of the ageing colonial-era architecture in which it occurred. Its title, ‘Pillar to Post’ suggested the degree to which contemporary life is evermore at the whim of external forces that propel us from one space to another. We move more frequently than ever from one place to another, from one situation to another, willingly or not.
History is a Dying Star, Jelena Telecki, NEW14, ACCA, Melbourne
Jelena Telecki’s paintings prove that the representation of subjective truth need not automatically result in simple illustrative narratives. In the artist’s recent body of work, references to the overreaching ‘utopian’ ambitions of states and their leaders, are unhinged from easy readings of historical causality.
To produce value under Capital is a misfortune because it means producing value for somebody else.