All would agree that while some normalcy has returned, our lives remain very different to our pre-COVID world.
Macquarie University Gallery, moderator and co-curator of the exhibition, Rhonda Davis said a key piece in the University’s Collection as a springboard to approaching these shifting ideas, is Sidney Nolan’s painting, Escape (1948).
It was raised also by artist NOT, who has often made work with the theme of surveillance. He spoke of the use of the mask in this post pandemic moment, collection materials for his Still Life in the exhibition: ‘I actually was able to wander into industrial areas, and actually felt a freedom. There wasn’t any policing. There wasn’t anybody to stop me. But now [when I go] to Bunnings, I’ve got a cap, glasses and a mask, because they’re now doing facial recognition technology.
