“Debut Stand”
Lou Hubbard and Alex Vivian
5 Sept → 20 Sept 2014

Debut Stand is a red carpet parade of objects and sculptural assemblages. Teetering between a formal play with materials and a sense of perversity through the suggestive properties of the objects themselves, Debut Stand nods to irrational desires and how they manifest in the objects around us.

Lou Hubbard’s sculptures and videos examine the dynamics of training, submission and the aesthetics of sentimentality. She subjects basic materials of domestic and institutional utility to acts of duress, measure and fitness - operations that pertain to the disciplinary spaces where subjectivity and knowledge are formed.
Since 2000, Hubbard has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia as well as Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Auckland, Rome, Seoul, Berlin, Manila and Portland Oregon. Studio residencies include the Australia Council’s Paris Cite (2004), Barcelona (2012) and AIR Antwerp Belgium (2013).

She is represented by Sarah Scout Melbourne.

Alex Vivian born 1981, Melbourne, Victoria. Recent shows include: Spring fair 1883 (with Minerva), 2014; To propose an petroleum jelly advertisement or campaign at Flake, 2013; Reinventing the wheel: The Readymade Century at Monash University Museum of Modern Art, 2013. He Has studied at both the VCA and RMIT and is working on various future projects encompassing ideas about clothing, stench, material change, etc.