This has been up at a few places for a while, and flyers and Facebook page have been out, but I held off posting here or promo-ing on here for a little bit – I try to keep this blog separate from any personal stuff I have going on – but its an exhibition, and its coming up, so here it is.
My first solo exhibition, Inhabited Times, will be showing at At Large Gallery in Northcote on September 3rd – its something I’ve been working on for, well, almost a decade or so of writing and drawing, so it has a fair bit of a back story to it – and you can find more details on at www.irikanji.com. The show burrows heavily from my love of scifi concepts, as well as a lot of research and my interest in the last few years on Singularity Theory.
This is, I think, the same night as the EF Book launch (alas for minor clashes), which is going to be grand, and I’ll be heading to that straight afterwards – so you should all make a night of it as well!
I’m pretty excited to be able to show a range of my work for the first time, outside of a few group shows here and there, and, of course, looking forward to getting my beer on on the night.
“Inhabited Times” is the first solo exhibition from Fletcher Andersen, presenting both new and unexhibited works from a vast, conceptual world building project over a decade in the making.
Fletcher, out of Perth and now Melbourne-based, has steadily built the dark, solar system spanning demesne of The Known. Adrift with the remnants of a technologically-rich past, wandered by the disparate remains of a xenophobic humanity; the remnants of the failed Singularity struggles to discover a route with which to rebuild life, albeit hyper-evolved.
Shining a light on humanity and its absorption of technology, Fletcher marks our vicissitudes in bionics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. He draws upon Singularity Theory, the concept that the pace of technological development approaches a crescendo whereat life inevitably transforms to accommodate advances in science – irrevocably altering civilisation, society and the biosystem.
Presenting a wide range of illustrations, prints and visuals, Inhabited Times is the first exploration into the vagaries, alternatives and deviations of a future civilisation in which the concept of humanity is a lost, idiosyncratic aberrative.”
Who: Fletcher Andersen
What: Inhabited Times solo exhibition
Where: At Large Gallery, 208 High Street, Northcote
When: Friday 3rd September, opening 6pm – 9pm. Show runs to September 16th
So please check out the Facebook page, as well as the website for more details and background to the concept behind the show (and to make sense of that nerd-speak haha).
