eX de Medici seduces viewers with stunning technical virtuosity, yet on closer inspection, the work can shock and confront. We are caught in a bewildering web of attraction and repulsion, beauty and horror. Her work insists that we are always implicated in evil – and that protesting our innocence is a hypocritical evasion.
This major survey exhibition lays bare the artist’s forensic examination of contemporary society. We encounter eX de Medici at her most uncompromising, with major works brought together from public and private collections for the first time, including recent monumental watercolours inspired by her visits to Iran.
ANU Drill Hall Gallery
28 June to 11 August, 2013
Canberra
Live the (big black) dream, 2006, watercolour and metallic pigment on paper, 114.2 x 167.4cm
Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
