Phone-videos are the preferred medium of Melbourne artist Christian Capurro, who has taken this mobile screen image to a new scale. Presented as refashioned room-sized projections, his new exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) will be presented alongside the exhibition, Optical Mix, an international survey of works that use light, kinetics and visual oscillations.
Capurro’s new work, with the title SLAVE, pays tribute to the monumental works of American minimalist Dan Flavin, known for his iconic fluorescent sculptures and installations. Described as ‘part homage, part theft… yet also compelling “portraits” of Flavin’, Capurro plays with the idea of monumentality – both in terms of mythology and kudos, but also punching up a phone-video to the architectural scale of ACCA.
