The Ascended brings together early and new works across photography, video performance and sculpture by Chantal Fraser that represent the culmination of recent research into capitalism and violence in Australia and reflections on living as a Samoan-Australian artist in Queensland.
The exhibition crystallises Fraser’s exploration of power and class through her anti-colonial and anti-capitalist strategies, developing a theory that links ornamentation, personal protective devices and protest aesthetics as means to subvert and liberate identities. Forms are restrained and minimalist yet boldly rebellious and maximalist in presentation.
Chantal Fraser, Fantômas Gold, 2023, from the series ‘Riot Gear’, 2015–ongoing, welding helmet, rhinestones, glass, 33 × 24 × 25.5cm, Photograph: Louis Lim, Courtesy the artist and Griffith University Art Museum, Queensland
Griffith University Art Museum
15 June to 2 September 2023
Queensland
