Chips, whips, chains and dips… Fetish is the next exhibition on display at The Owl And The Pussycat Gallery in Richmond. Opening Wednesday March 16 until April 3.
Chips, whips, chains and dips… Fetish is the next exhibition on display at The Owl And The Pussycat Gallery in Richmond. Opening Wednesday March 16 until April 3.
The gallery will feature a series of mixed media including: painting, photography, installation, multimedia projection/film, live performance and illustration. Flesh lights (shudder), beads, harnesses, masks, latex, rubber, chains, robots, mobile phones, game consoles, pokie machines, computers, iPods, iPads, and iPhones; they’re all devices of a fetish.
A fetish comes from the Latin term facticius, it is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others. Today we commonly associate fetishism and fetishes with sexual fetishism, which is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object. The exhibition explores the interpretation by various artists and what fetish means to them and features works by Projector Obscura, Stephen Thompson, James McCullough, Andrew Merlino, Elizaveta Maltseva, Jack Sheppard, Lu Diamond, Clare Rob Lynch, Emily Veale, Gen Tyack and Gloria Wolfgang and Brett Ludeman. The gallery is at 34 Swan Street, Richmond and the opening on March 16 is from 6pm.
