We’ve been blessed to have seen a tiny smidgeon of the progress for this upcoming show from Kristen McIver, and we can’t help but want to tell everyone about it!

McIver’s glowing typography is quite a beautiful sight, delving as she does into different phrases, words and other subversive messages (it really tickles our complete love for meme theory), illuminating her pieces as a simultaneous visual and mental experience.

“Kristin McIver’s Statement Pieces are self referential text-based artworks proclaiming to represent nothing more than their word subjects imply. Drawing upon the writings of Jean Beaudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, McIver’s Statement Pieces break down the illusionistic constructs of the media and advertising …

… McIver collects words and phrases from advertising, and subverts their message through context within her artworks. Your Shining Star seduces, inspires, instructs, and while on further contemplation, presents simply a neon sign, shining in fluorescent luminescence. The decadence proposed by The Good Life is rendered meaningless when placed upon a pile of chains and shipping pallets. Wishlist presents an indeterminate list of ideals, which in themselves are simply representational “wishes” eager to be satiated and replaced by the next desire.

Statement Pieces continues McIver’s investigation into desire, aspiration and consumerism in the 21st century.”

Who: Kristin McIver
What: Statement Pieces solo show
Where: James Makin Gallery, 67 Cambridge Street, Collingwood, Victoria
When: Show opens Thursday 4th August at 6pm and runs til the 27th August

Check out Kristen McIvers website, as well as the James Makin Gallery.