SUPERCUT x NICHOLAS ALOISIO-SHEARER
21 November 2022 onwards
Scorn
Nicholas ALOISIO-SHEARER / Scorn 2022 / digital image / © Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer
Scorn takes as its subject the Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon, as told by the poet Ovid and represented through history by artists such as Titian. This contemporary retelling of the myth appears to take place within a hyper saturated video game world, with the viewer taking the place of Actaeon, the hunter doomed for spying upon the goddess Diana. Here the viewer’s complicity in gazing upon the divine is punished. Appropriating the conventions of a First-Person Shooter, the work asserts the act of looking, even upon a 3D computer generated world, as an act of violence.
Bruce Highway
Aldershot turn-off
Southbound Aldershot Q 4650
(map here)
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Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer is an artist whose practice is concerned with the digital conditions of contemporary life. His practice engages with the cultural functions of imaging technologies and examines how networked cultures are shaped by the technologies and images they exist within. He has exhibited in a number of galleries including UNSW Galleries and Milani Gallery, and artist-run spaces including Firstdraft and Bus Projects. He has also exhibited online with a number of organisations, including Solo Show and State Of gallery (Milan). He graduated with Honours from a Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media at UTS in 2014 and in 2019 completed a Masters of Fine Art (Research) at UNSWAD.
Billboard documentation by Robert Waye.
SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.