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Production still from
The Australian Ugliness 2018
Eugenia Lim
Eugenia Lim
89 Bourke Street (Renew)
installation in vacant shop
Eugenie Lim represented
by STATION gallery
Photography by Tom Ross
Artist statement:
For UPTOWN, I am adapting a recent work that considers the architecture and identity of Australia through choreographed and costumed interventions. A gold-suited figure pushes back against Vault (1979), the infamous public sculpture by Ron Robertson-Swann that is also known by the casually racist moniker ‘Yellow Peril’. The work conflates past and present, social history and public art to ask: who holds the right to design our spaces, and who are they designed for? Who shapes our built environment and in turn, how do these forces shape us?