“Economy Class / Resort”
Kain Picken
16 Aug → 7 Sept 2013

Reflecting on different zones of activity and inactivity inhabited by contemporary bodies (work, travel and exercise) Economy class / Resort proposes a space of interference within the rhythms of production and consumption that produce notions of contemporary lifestyle. The painting, video and sculptural works in Economy Class / Resort engage different modes of creative production and material economies to investigate what possible forms these interruptions might produce.

Kain Picken is an Australian born artist currently based between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. His practice develops between different modes of creative production and cultural contexts engaging questions concerning value, authorship and the generation of meaning in contemporary culture. Employing appropriation as a starting point, he uses existing and reconfigured objects, images and text to reflect on the economic, cultural and social surfaces that construct our day-day-realities. He is the co-founder of the design collaborative ffiXXed.