Exhibition Event: Beet-wix

About this show

Enjoy bathing among the raucous joyous chorus of creatures who will not be silenced.To celebrate their exhibition, The little guys that come out of me: sit and listen to them, Natasha Munro (Paradox Princess) and Lucky Pollock (beet-wix) will perform amidst the sculptures which comprise their exhibition.With the exhibition, the artists consider whether “the playful yet confronting nature of these creatures and their songs enable a more realistic depiction of queer expression. The aim of these works was to spark joy (and possibly shock), to grieve but also to play. Some of these beings are almost toy-like, but perhaps too confronting to quite be so. The bitcrushed sound of the Nintendo combined with Lucky’s hyperactive and frenetic compositional style amplify this feeling.” Natasha Munro Hurn is a Tāmaki Makaurua based artist that explores utopian trans-punk ideology through an experimental screen print and installation practice. She seeks to find unapologetic practices of mess within an explosive hybrid of photographic-based collages of herself and her environment, fabric print work and hectic found object sculptures. Through this practice of mess she hopes to conjure up a healing euphoria for both herself and the various trans communities that exist within Aotearoa.…

Description from the Under the Radar listing.