Sugar
What:
Sugar
Where:
Format Furniture, basement, 113 Flinders Lane (between Russell and Exhibition)
When:
Until March 23
How much:
Free
Contact:
Paper Stone Scissors
The form is sucrose-based, but the art, nutritious. Sugar takes a childhood treat to demonic levels.
Running for the forth-consecutive year as part of LMFF, communications house Paper Stone Scissors and stylist Virginia Dowzer have let 29 indulgent pickings caramelise into one sweet-ass show.
Like a bag of mixed lollies, over the past year assorted artists, designers, photographers and musicians boiled up a delicious range of photographs, sound and installation art pieces.
The virtual candy store sports suspended sugar cubes, overlain with Sugar-infused printed photography. A sprinkling of installation art gives the whole display ‘do not touch’ attitude - although secretly, you’d like to lick the space wall to wall.
Suggestive models sucking candy canes, the apocalyptic ‘Cane Fire’ and etherised beauty of ‘Death by Toffee’, make this lolly land both challenge and pervert inherent nostalgias; indicative of the bittersweet world we live in.
Sugar is sensorial delight that all art lovers (and dental hygienists) should dip their little fingers into.
Image Credit:
Concept: Juli Balla & Rae Morris
Hair & Make-up: Rae Morris
Photographer: Juli Balla
Medium: Design
Drink: Double espresso
Keywords: Paper Stone Scissors, Art, Format Furniture, Sugar
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