Presented by Midsumma Festival and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program
About the Artwork
"Art takes place in the mind of the viewer, where individuals can bring their own experiences to create meaning for themselves. This makes art exciting and challenging, as everyone has different feelings and interpretations.
My invitation for viewers is to think about the world around them, and so I take text and symbols I find in the everyday environment - be it the internet, television or newspapers, and combine them together into new arrangements
The statements in the images circulate widely in society and are not my own views or opinions, but rather have been reproduced as a point of discussion, to pose questions about the world and provide a moment of reflection."
About the Artist
Paul Yore lives and works on unceded Gunaikurnai land in the Gippsland region. He is committed to innovative and experimental methodologies, questioning formal conventions, playing with hierarchies of value, and proudly representing queer identity and experience.
Yore is interested in the deep connection between text and textiles, words which also share an etymological root in the Latin term texere, meaning “to weave”. In this sense, we can think about how meaning is ‘woven’ but remains highly unstable and contingent - it can always be unpicked and unravelled.