Mutations

3 May 2015 Comment

Trocadero Art Space is an artist-run initiative located in the heart of Footscray – only 5 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD. Trocadero Art Space presents an annual exhibition calendar of new and contemporary art with a focus on presenting a diverse program of engaging and high-quality exhibitions across its 2 exhibition spaces.Trocadero Art Space is celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary this year in 2015. Mutations “Shane Nicholas has combined experimental painting and sculptural techniques, with the precision of digital macro photography to accentuate the distortions that occur in mass production. He has re-purposed toys and mannequins out of their ordinary context and reproduced them, using intentionally flawed and haphazard processes. This has caused errors that confuse the original imperfections with further mutations, making it difficult to distinguish between intention and error. As well as highlighting the dangers of unintended mutations created through the rapid adoption of new technologies, the work celebrates the inevitability of human error within systems designed to eliminate such error. It also questions the motives behind the desire to remove the evidence of humanity in emerging technologies.”