THE RED QUEEN – Art that shows why art is made – curated by Olivier Varenne, Nicole Durling and the MONA team.
MONA continues its inquiry into the messy machinery of human nature by asking a rather big question: why do humans make art?
Anthropologists have discovered rocks we carved, bones and tools we honoured and marked, and caves we painted thousands of years ago, along with rituals and ceremonies we enacted. If evolution is about unrelenting determination to adapt and survive in order to continue our species, then carrying out tasks that are time and resource wasting seems counterintuitive – unless, of course these skills made us who we are today. More than 100 works – including photography, sculpture, video works and paintings.
MONA
Until 15 September, 2014
Tasmania
Hubert Duprat, Ulexite, Untitled (dice), 2011, plastic, dice and glue, dimension variable
Courtesy the artist and MONA, Hobart
