Exhibition

10.03.06 - 08.04.06
Studio 12
Alicia Frankovich
Of Stadiums and Construction Sites

Hanging in Studio 12 like an array of colourful sports banners, the three works which comprise Alicia Frankovich's exhibition Of Stadiums and Construction Sites mark out a physical space in the gallery which belies their two-dimensionality.

Fusing the performative spectacle of the gymnastic stadium, the industrious activity of the construction site, the smaller-scale domestic arena of home furnishing and other such loaded environments, Frankovich's practice unravels the various ways in which our bodies are coerced into action by the structures that surround us. All of these actions involve varying degrees of discipline and procedure, and Frankovich's work playfully confuses their codes and signs, redirecting them into new and compelling configurations.

The hand-painted banners thus transform these systems into something more ambiguous and abstract, creating a new visual language in which the body is momentarily freed from the functional directives of everyday movement, and opening a dynamic space of transformation and transgression.