Chasing Alice is an exhibition by Annie Lok featuring the latest works in her ongoing series titled Rabbit Holes. Each piece features a female protagonist, the ‘Alice’, as she navigates her way through these carefully constructed compositions – imbued with symmetry, balance, texture and colour theory – by utilising the tools available in photo editing software to manipulate personal and found imagery through either filtering, warping, stretching, or layering, all in a bid to invent a landscape for each ‘Alice’ to discover.
Rabbit Holes becomes twofold: influenced by Lok’s academic interests, tackling the ‘human experience’ through social, political and art historical lenses, and as an escape from the reality of her discomfort. A workplace accident in 2021 left Lok with two ruptured discs in her lower spine and neuropathy, leaving Lok to contend with chronic pain and physical limitations even to this day. Rabbit Holes are designed to test our physical, intellectual and emotive boundaries when thrust into familiar and unfamiliar spaces: does our trauma response activate or is it a welcomed escape from reality? Only the viewer will know how the Rabbit Hole serves them; if it gives them what they need, affirms their beliefs, or takes them away into the unexpected.
About the Artist
Annie Lok (b. 1982 in Canberra ACT/ Ngunawal Country) is a collage artist, constructing her pieces from personal and found photographs. Lok has both practiced and theorised art and objects, obtaining undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the ANU School of Art and Design, with enduring interests in figuration, feminist history and surrealism. Lok also looks to female art practitioners Jess Johnson and Lucy McRae for their investigations into body politics, futurism and technology, chanelling their aesthetic and artistic prowess, creating captivating digital piece.
Lok is represented by fYRE Gallery, Braidwood, and lives in Mount Fairy, with her spouse and daughter.
Images
Rabbit Hole 32.1
Rabbit Hole 101
Rabbit Hole 106
Rabbit Hole 80
Rabbit Hole 3
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