“Slow Dance”
Shay Minster
19 Feb → 13 Mar 2010

Slow Dance examines the tragic comedy of the human condition. Appearing familiar and amusing at first, the project explores the suppression experienced when a personality is radically altered through the manipulation of their environment. A clown motif – drained of its usual high colour and its joyous free dance restricted – flails about in a futile attempt to fulfill its intended purpose. Stuck in endless repetition, Slow Dance confronts, in an absurd manner, the existential vacuum.

Shay Minster completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. Since then she has been short listed for various prizes and exhibited in artist-run spaces across Melbourne. Recent exhibitios include I Can Stand You at TCB art inc., We Love Each Other and Resocialisation – The Wentworth Gaol Project as part of The Murray Darling Palimpsest #7.