Alice Lang taps into the current political and cultural climate to deliver a high-impact visual journey full of kitsch, vulgarism and the absurd, challenging the audience to consider biases and assumptions surrounding heteronormativity, gender roles, and body politics in her first major institutional show.
Using mediums traditionally associated with craft – puffy paint, marbled paper – Lang boldly addresses the historical devaluation of feminised labour and materials. This reclamation is echoed in the provocative language repeated throughout the exhibition, the jarring scale and decontextualisation competing with psychedelia for our attention.

Alice Lang, Flowah Powah, 2019, marbled paper and acrylic on paper. Courtesy the artist and QUT Art Museum, Queensland
QUT Art Museum
20 June to 1 October 2023
Queensland