EXHIBITION, SOLO
At the culmination of his PhD, Jay Kochel presents Exact Fantasies, a series of four tableaux that explore the relationships between fetish, magic and interfacing the body. He uses material metaphors of containment, boundaries and fluidity to incorporate perceptions of purity and contagion. The tableaux allude to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of mimetic transformation that occurs through sympathetic magic, giving bodily power to objects that bear no resemblance to the bodies they reference.
2012, ARTWORK, INSTALLATION
Séance, 2012 timber, copper, hair, polyurethane, Shellac, glass vessel, found and altered table, magnets, brass, steel, electronic components, custom programming, transducer 170 x 255 x 275 cm All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Exact...
2012, ARTWORK, INSTALLATION
Votives for Little Hans, 2012 wax, polyurethane, epoxy resin, fabric, timber, shellac, copper 255 x 255 x 130 cm All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Exact...
2012, ARTWORK, INSTALLATION
Jugum Trumpets, 2012 epoxy resin, sequin pins, shellac, Jewel Beetle wings, jute, timber, salt, ammonia, Prussian blue, bitumen 150 x 320 x 60 cm PHOTOGRAPHY Brenton McGeachie EXHIBITIONS SOA PRO, 2016 Exact Fantasies,...