“Fight or Flight”
Tai Snaith
17 Apr → 9 May 2009

Are we fighting to win? Fighting a losing battle whilst flying by the seat of our pants? Or are we all just flying high on instinct, waiting for our time to come?

Fight or Flight is an installation that visually examines and compares the innate responses amongst humans and animals in times of absurdity, desperation and utter confusion. Delicate collage and layers of drawing and painting applied to found vintage books and book jackets form the texts of this unconventional library come make-shift refuge shelter. With 2009 seeing the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his seminal text ‘Origin of the Species’, how better to celebrate than to revel in the collected behavioural and visual bedlam created by man and beast.

Tai Snaith is a Melbourne based visual artist, curator and writer working across a wide range of mediums and ideas. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002, Snaith has exhibited locally and internationally and is the current recipient of the Australia Council Tokyo residency.