the faster you learn to say ‘this is hideous, i love it’ about an item of clothing and genuinely mean it, the faster no one can take away your happiness about your clothes because they can be like ‘what the fuck are you wearing’ and the only answer you can give is a gleeful ‘i KNOW isn’t it HIDEOUS!’
And once you’ve accomplished this, you can do this with everything. My clothes? ugly. My furniture? Tacky. My car? hideous!
Bring the hideous into your entire life and experience the true zen of not giving a fuck
National Gallery Victoria Triennial, December 2017 – April 2018
“ … an installation of 100 individual human skull
forms piled up on the gallery floor, each which engage with the architecture of
the site. a somber study of mortality … In MASS Mueck celebrates the form that
links all humanity, and pays homage to a symbol that has stood within the art
of essentially all cultures and religion.”
if it happened at all, it happened like that 