C&B GALLERY
On Poor Street - Rhonda Dredge, Vanessa Beck
16th July – 4th August 2012
Opening 21st July, 3-5pm
An installation of paintings, drawings and linocuts by Vanessa Beck and Rhonda Dredge.
The founder of free market economics Adam Smith postulated the presence of an invisible hand that directed the affairs of man. The hand guided an individual trader to maximise profits which in the long term benefited society as a whole. Smith invented an omniscient narrator, a philosopher economist who distanced himself from individual subjects and was able to imagine the invisible connections between them in terms of monetary value. Thus, the economic subject was born. The trouble with Smith’s theory, which still guides modern capitalist society, is that humans come in pairs and the dialogic nature of our culture is embedded in language. For every up there is a down; for every rich there is a poor. This exhibition explores that binary.
Sponsors: Gary Greene and Tom Forsell
The exhibition runs from 16th July - 4th August 2012 at Chapman & Bailey, 350 Johnston St, Abbotsford.
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