Brisbane-based artist Victoria Reichelt investigates the shifts from analogue to digital and physical to virtual, a result of the modern notion of the codex book’s redundancy and its rendering of institutions such as libraries and archives as moot. For this exhibition Reichelt takes ordinary objects and office stationary, strips them of their context and presents each in a fresh tableaux. Reichelt’s medium highlights her message and affirms the value of painting in a world of online saturation.
Victoria Reichelt, Thicket, 2017, oil on linen, 42 x 42cm. Courtesy the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne
THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery
Until 24 June, 2017
Melbourne
