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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Persistence of Vision; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Art Space on the Concourse | Chatswood, 9 Aug - 3 Sep 2023

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Persistence of Vision; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Art Space on the Concourse | Chatswood

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Photography by Silversalt.
Photography by Silversalt.
'We’re looking at two different ideas of humans’ tendency to want to believe in something other than what is really there...'
Persistence of Vision; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters explores the realm of the phantastic. Belief in the phantasms of the past such as The Loch Ness Monster, ghostly spectres, Little Green Men, and Bigfoot have mostly been put to bed through modern scientific analysis. But what has replaced these bug-a-boos?⁠
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Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro combine the diaphanous spectres of the past with the delusions of the near-present. Utilising Lego as its primary medium, Persistence of Vision; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters offers Lego mosaic renderings of endearing paranormal entities of the past combined with small Lego sculptures of improvised weapons collected in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C.⁠

This exhibition is presented at Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood. Artworks in this exhibition will be presented at N.Smith Gallery in 2024. Get in touch to preview.

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