Ritual of Subject, a multimedia installation consisting of four separate digital videos and a 3D printed sculpture, was included in Artspace Aotearoa's exhibition Cruel Optimism: New Artists Show (2021).
“Ritual of Subject presents four things that are commonly desired paranoidly under contemporary notions of capitalism and consumer society: fitness, sexuality, consumer symbols, and idol worship; and, based on Jacques Lacan's theory of "Objet petit a" systematically constructs a narrative scene that corresponds to it.”
This overview consists of five combined previews of the multi-channel work and the sculpture that sat at their centre.
· Video 1: The Flattering of Physical Changes (2021)
· Video 2: The Anti-enjoyment Mentality of Abstinence (2021)
· Video 3: The Grotesque of Consumer Symbols (2021)
· Video 4: The Idol Worship of Cynic (2021)
· Video 5: Digital preview of Aggregate of Desires (2021)
All works are in 4K video and are 20 seconds long.
