Nothing's Going to Change My World
Spring 1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
17-23 August, 2016
'Nothing's Going to Change My World' is Alex Seton's newest body of work that uses a corrupted form of traditional memorial statuary and sculptural installation to create monuments to an uncertain future.
From carved marble effigies these mixed media pieces, the works take a gentle sardonic sci-fi look at expressions of a nervous world in prognostication, proselytizing, punditry and doomsayers.
Central in the the body of work is 'The Prophet'; a formal portrait bust of the helmet of a hazmat suit, and the ‘Effigy Series’ a factory produced generic marble religious statue reworked for the western religious market, deconstructed and carved by the artist to reveal its bleached and hollowed insides . This narrative driven body of work ultimately reflects upon a changing world with an optimism in the resourcefulness of human nature.
The Message 2016
Photographic print
Image by Mark Pokorny
The Effigy Series 2016
Robes of the effigy 2016
Imperial white, found object
The Messenger 2016
Imperial white, found object, flare
37 x 40 x 77 cm
Plinth of the effigy 2016
Imperial white, found object
30 x 37 x 63 cm
Hem of the effigy 2016
Imperial white marble
33 x 27 x 15 cm
Beard of the effigy 2016
Imperial white marble
10 x 16 x 7 cm
Staff of the effigy 2016
found sculpture, stainless steel
198 x 48 x 40 cm
The Prophet 2016
Pisanino marble, Belgian black marble, plastic
50 x 48 x 38 cm