eX de Medici’s forty-year career explores the value and fragility of life, global affairs, greed and commerce, and universal themes of power, conflict, and death.
Comprising over a hundred works, Beautiful Wickedness surveys the artist’s journey from her ephemeral early works, including oversized photocopies and posters from the mid-1980s and the blood swabs sampled from her clients’ post-tattoo from 1991 to present, to her latest series of large-scale watercolours in which she fuses moths and weapons to denounce the futility of war and its impact on the planet.
eX de Medici, Live the (Big Black) Dream, 2006, watercolour and metallic pigment on paper, 114.2 × 167.4cm (irreg.) Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, purchased 2006. © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane
Gallery of Modern Art
24 June to 2 October 2023
Queensland
