Habitat

The Sunday Age

Sunday October 5, 2008

Penny Modra

HABITAT

Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood. utopianslumps.org. Oct 11-Nov 1, Fri-Sat noon-6pm.

Humans have homes, but animals get to have habitats. This is totally unfair. They're flying south and digging holes like the world is their lounge room while we're writing down IKEA product codes with a stumpy pencil. This group exhibition will investigate domesticity and belonging. Like, where do the boundaries of home really lie? What other places are human habitat? Christine Eid's taxi domes crossed with planter pots suggest that cabs are domestic spaces (and customers are guests or home invaders). Georgia Metaxas' photographs capture the in-between world of public transport. Stations as peaceful planes for private thought. Which, obviously, is not how it is at ALL, but maybe she's suggesting we abandon the distinction between "on the way home" and just "home". Laurence Billiet surrounds this work with miniature wheelie bins and paintings of wheelie bins - our last gatekeepers on the line between civilisation and savagery.

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