Import cigarettes, counterfeit luxury, dupe core, forgery. A palimpsest of fuckery. A chronically online enclosure brink with radicals. Pressed tin painted gold. Pleather. TikTok physicality. The contemporary as a counter culture to whatever proceeded it. Techno accelerists, incels, neo liberals, neo anarchists and neo neo’s. Then there is Morgan Bistro, his TikTok architectures, his brutalist bakehouse. I bet he has a cavoodle. It’s zoo architecture, captive formalism. He’s a cwassant corbusier.
A hidden language of gestures at play. Signals, side eye, funnelled domination. An elusive space to be surveilled.
I notice these rituals now, my every move as a microcosm. Happenings at the not so sacred.
The counterfeit as a material counter culture. Hulk Hogan opening the proceedings at the RNC by ripping his shirt off and revealing a trump 2024 wife beater.
Centred through loss, memory, and ownership, Felix’s work examines relations between the constructed natures of ideas, symbols and rules. He considers what occurs when shifts are undergone, what is torn away, and what could possibly be filled into these lost spaces.
Through orchestrated photography, Felix’s practice captures conversations of gesture. How do we embrace each other while traversing undercurrents? Navigating; the fluidity of despair, support and release in an attempt to embody the experience and tension of change.
Felix’s practice studies the experience of holding on tightly to another while observing memory shifting, distorting and fleeting.
Clement Lazzaro is an artist living and working in Naarm. He investigates the possibilities of the counterfeit as a counter cultural material.
The theatrics of the dupe and the crude histrionics of the radically online political enclosure. This is conceived through a sculptural practice, with an emphasis on precious metals, fabrics and gem stones.