‘Monstrous Masses’ Exhibition by Louise Zhang
Seeing our lady loves totally nailing it in the art world makes us fist pump harder than if Kenneth the Page and John Bender won doubles at Wimbledon. Louise Zhang, last year’s winner of the STAEDTLER Yen Female Art Awards and all round kick-arse creative has launched an exhibition, ‘Monstrous Masses’, at Artereal Gallery in Sydney. Zhang draws from the grim and gory depths of modern-classic horror films, like David Cronenberg’s hectic ‘head exploding scene’ in Scanners, or an ultrasound of your insides after marinating in dumpling soup-water from last night’s noodle markets. Zhang’s art aestheticises the internal body, so while its slimy surface nods to cult film favourite The Blob, the lurid pastel paints transform the masses into something between an unlicensed physician performing an appendectomy and a melting rainbow Paddlepop. Just try to look away.
Monstrous Masses by Louise Zhang
4 May – 28 May
Artereal
747 Darling Street
Rozelle
NSW
