KARRI CAMERON
Unattainable Bling
17 Mar 2010—03 Apr 2010
‘Unattainable bling’ examines the relationship between materiality and conceptual content, focusing on the futility of contemporary ideologies surrounding wealth, materialism and self-fulfillment. The process in making the artworks is filtering, selecting, editing and assembling materials that are detritus, low-tech and often disposable in an attempt to emphasize the impoverished materiality of the artworks. This is done with the notion of challenging the concept of value placed on an object. The installation will consist of sculptures and photographs that reference street-culture objects of protest, reflecting upon the relationship between social unrest, identity and the constraints of attempting to attain the unattainable.
Karri Cameron completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Honours at RMIT University in 2009. Recently exhibitions include ‘spirit project’ at Seventh Gallery and Crème at RMIT School of Art Gallery. She has also recently been short-listed for the RMIT Honours Endowment Travelling Scholarship.