“They cool him down with cold hisses”
Samraing Chea and Kieren Seymour
1 Sept → 7 Oct 2017
They cool him down with cold hisses presented recent works by Samraing Chea and Kieren Seymour that shared a mutual interest in machines, systems, the everyday, mundanity and the built environment. A sense of something sinister, or impending disaster, pervades both artist's work.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Arts Project Australia.
Samraing Chea is an emerging artist who works predominantly with coloured pencils. With inspirations stemming from commerce, politics, urban landscapes and social environments, Chea’s work contains both humorous and startling social commentary. Alluding to both historical and present-day references, Chea’s art practice demonstrates an uncanny ability to extract the irony and idiosyncrasies of his subject matter.
Kieren Seymour (born London, UK) is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia and works across multiple mediums including video, digital painting and photography. Fragments of politics, economics and personal experiences shape the predominantly image based studio practice. Using absurdity and humour as a narrative device in his work, Pip Wallis states in her 2013 essay, Hi, here I am, that must be enough, "The conceptual strategies of Seymour's video (artworks) are comically encumbered with humanism".
Seymour's work has been exhibited in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland and UK, with his work held in collections in Australia, Hong Kong, London and UK.