Past Exhibitions

Jill Sorensen

Allure

31 May - 19 Jun 2003

Exhibition Works

Goldmine
Goldmine (2002)
Sugar
Sugar (2003)
Dark Chocolate
Dark Chocolate (2002)
Creme
Creme (2002)
Kitten
Kitten (2003)
Sugar Lips (2003) detail
Sugar Lips (2003) detail
Angel Baby (2003) detail
Angel Baby (2003) detail
Babe (2003) detail
Babe (2003) detail

Exhibition Text

Glamour is irresponsible and seductive – it may lead you into thinking about something that is not serious – like nail varnish and fast cars. Or it may lead you to something that is serious, which may also be nail varnish and fast cars.
I am interested in the possibility that this combination of resisting containment in theory and insistence that art be experienced as a lived, rather than a solely intellectual enterprise, may provide a strategy for the contemporary artist. By working in this fluid and operational way the artist’s practice may evade categorisation and remain perplexing, difficult to apprehend and problematic to the smooth theorising of art.

This strategy of nimble articulation underlies my art practice and is reflected in the diversity of my work. Commenting on subjects ranging from glamour, dependence on meaning, sexuality, humour and history, my work has in common a subtly subversive engagement with contemporary culture and art theory.