Elena Misso, Kaijern Koo, Michael McCafferty, Skye Malu Baker
Blindside Gallery, 2023
Odd fragments, ad infinitum collects the work of four Naarm-based artists who adopt a diaristic approach in their practices, transforming the everyday and domestic into an aesthetic experience that expresses the peculiarity of urban banality. In the same way that a word repeated ad infinitum will eventually lose its sense of meaning, a familiar artefact presented in an unfamiliar context can disrupt and disorientate our experience of the everyday. The strange and sublime, it seems, lurk just a sidestep to the left of our usual routines and habitual surroundings. Granules in a morning coffee or dust motes in a shock of light could be the cropped slither of a fantastical science-fiction landscape when caught in the corner of the eye.