Myth & Signification

Kudos Offsite presents Myth & Signification, an exhibition that invites four artists to reflect upon modern mythmaking and the ability of myth to distort and shape meaning. Through sculpture, installation, painting and textiles, myth and counter-myth are explored as devices for investigating the potentiality of oppositional perspectives and utopian ideas in resisting the creation of a world without contradiction.

Donna Haraway wrote, “it matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.” In order to make these worlds, to suspend reality, Roland Barthes wrote about Myth and its ability to abolish the complexity of human acts with the intention of creating a world without contradiction. Myth accomplishes this as a kind of metalanguage, using signs as signifiers to distort meaning and generate new narratives. In The Robbery of Language Roland Boer claims that the crafting of “a world without contradiction” is an undeniable acknowledgement of erasing other perspectives in favour of a singular vision.

Myth and Signification invites four artists to reflect upon myth and counter-myth as building blocks for such worlds and to consider the relationship between oppositional perspectives and the discourses that dominate them through the utilisation of myth’s power to distort meaning. Through sculpture, video, painting and installation myth and counter-myth are explored as devices for investigating the contradictions in mythical semiology and the potentiality of oppositional perspectives in resisting the creation of a world without contradiction.

Opening night: 24/07/24 – 6:00 – 8:30PM

Exhibition open for viewing daily 25/07/24 – 31/07/24 10AM to 5PM

Artists:
Astrid Bell
Sydney Jarrett
Nic Narapiromkwan Foo
Harrison Rae