Supple

26th Jul 07
Supple Look

What:
Supple

Where:
Bus Gallery, 117 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

When:
Until the 5th August
Wednesday-Friday 12-6pm; Saturday 12-5pm

How much:
Free

Contact:
9662 2442 or email or online bus117.com

Image by:
Alice Lang

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Bus Gallery's corridor space is about as wide as the email/website you're reading, but as Alice Lang's bulbous and grotesque Supple, you'll feel like you're communing with an alien god in an uneasy ceremony somewhere in deep space. Three portraits of the art-parasite in symbiosis with a willing participant sit on the left of the gallery space, while the thing itself sits ominously at the rear, pulsating and coruscating with equal parts sensuality and dread.

The work has the rare quality in sculpture of giving an instant physical reaction; except in this case, you are never sure if your spine is tingling, or, getting ready to merge with it.

Supple shares Bus Gallery with Claire Watson's Jellybean Lab: Order and Caprice, a saccharin-sweet explosion of colour and flavour. The combination of edibility and indistinct horror make for a confounding visit.

By Damien Worst

Medium: Installation

Drink: Long neck in a paper bag

Keywords: Bus Gallery, Alice Lang, Art

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