Karen Sewell: Lost
14 October, 2014 - 7 December, 2014
Little Gallery
Karen Sewell, Lost (2013), Child sized mannequins, wooden floor, sound
Karen Sewell, Lost (2013), Child sized mannequins, wooden floor, sound
Lost presents a futuristic vision that offers a critique of the global consumer culture. As consumers we negotiate and submit to the culture of advertising inherent in the shopping mall ‘experience’, and are lured and seduced by promises of empowerment, happiness, fulfilment, youth and beauty. Karen Sewell questions the utopian promises of consumerism, suggesting that such promises often leave us feeling unfulfilled, diminished and even impoverished.
Lost attempts to represent the psychological impact of consumerist society on personal identity and spiritual well-being. Group dynamics and automation are explored along with notions of loss and displacement.
About the Artist:
Karen Sewell is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. She was the supreme award winner of the Trusts Art and Sculpture Award in 2011, a finalist in the Adam Portraiture Award in 2012 and a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards in 2013. Her practice encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and photography.