The Garden of Interior Delights
What:
The Garden of Interior Delights
Who:
Kate Just
Where:
Don't Come Gallery, Lvl 2, Royal Arcade, 314 Lt Collins St, Melbourne
When:
Launching Fri Oct 17, 6-8pm
Some people see genitals in everything. The vegetable aisle, certain 'art' sculptures in Port Melbourne or simply their boss's face; the world is funnier for its phallic objects. Kate Just is one who can spot a sexual organ from miles away. When examining Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights she looked past the nudes with multiple legs and people stroking giant fish in the foreground and went straight for the pink fountain in the left panel.
Some art historians believe the fountain refers to either the alchemical sign of Cancer (the crab) or a pelican pecking its own breast; an ancient sign of Christ's sacrifice.
Pfft! Not Kate. For the past ten months she has been knitting up a sculptural reworking of the Bosch fountain. Her adaptation, however, focuses on its resemblance to a vagina. The folds of pink wool, tufty bits and fallopian tubes form this spongy monument that will be on display at Don't Come. Feel free to make all the dirty jokes in the world. Juveniles? Here's your time to shine.
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
Keywords: Don't Come, Art, Gertrude Contempory Art Spaces
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