In
their first-ever collaboration, artist Jesse Willesee, of Seven
Hundred Photos fame, and music video director Daniel Havas, have
combined forces with 22 ‘beautiful, stylish babes’ to create a
fun, intimate and thoroughly modern portrait of the enigmatic,
fashionable and creative young women of their generation – all who
happen to enjoy smoking weed ...
The
resulting images are a tribute to those acts of ‘casual art’ and
self-portraiture found on popular blogging sites like Tumblr. This
show marks the first installment of Jesse Willesee’s ‘Tumblr
Trilogy”, a series of exhibitions which explore those artistic, pop
cultural and personal preoccupations, known as ‘trending topics”,
of the ‘Tumblr generation’ – one of which, time and again, is
the use and glamorization of marijuana.
Photographed
and filmed entirely on iPhone, using fish-eye lenses and filters, the
resulting film and collection of over 40 photographs is part of the
emerging iPhone-ography movement which sees artists, filmmakers and
photographers forgo traditional equipment and instead capture the
world as they see it through modern gadgets.
The
show will take over the expanse of the now-abandoned Dr Pong bar and
transform it into a complete 22 Girls experience, with an exhibition
featuring over 40 photographs, a large-scale video projection, as
well as a live installation, music, a ‘pizza party’ and themed
merchandise including tote bags and collector cards.
THURSDAY 19 APRIL 7PM @ 1A BURTON ST SURRY HILLS (THE OLD DR PONGS)
