Post Vandalism: Group Exhibition

Post Vandalism considers the relationship between public space and the act of destruction, both materially and conceptually. Bringing together a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and film, the exhibition underscores the conscious engagement of these artists to harness destruction as a means of empowerment. 

Tethered to a host of previous art movements, such as the readymade, nouveau réalisme, and graffiti, post-vandalism uses destruction as a means of creating positive change. There is new-found meaning in sprayed utility markings, blackened motorway facades, and warped anti-climb architecture. Molten tarmac caked with colourful dots of chewing gum outside a nightclub or bleached white shopping bags flailing in the wind become symbolic fragments of the lived experience. The works on display are united in capturing the streets we traverse every day and the rapid, gross impact we inflict on our environment, paying homage to the lives that inhabit the city with acute psychological insight.