Art Metropole

09 Nov. 2017

Vida Beyer - "No Chill"

Artist

Vida Beyer

Time

5-7pm

Please join us for the launch of Vida Beyer’s new window installation for Art Metropole, “No Chill”, on display from Nov 9 – 30, 2017.

“No Chill” explores discomfort with normative notions of success and “having it together”, particularly while being in public. A boutique of sorts, Beyer’s installation displays giant and impractical statement bags, rude t-shirts and uncertain objects. The body of work is loosely inspired by the popular 1997 movie, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion.

Romy and Michelle choose to attend their 10-year high school reunion to prove that they are way cooler than they were in high school. Ashamed that they don’t have cool jobs or boyfriends, they decide to use their imagination and fashion design savvy, showing up to the reunion dressed as high-powered businesswomen claiming to have invented post-it notes. Though they are ultimately exposed as phonies in a moment of humiliation and vulnerability, they determine to embrace themselves as silly, unconventional people. The film ends with Romy and Michelle opening a Melrose boutique for their own fashion line.

Opening Reception – Nov 9, 5-7pm

Vida Beyer is an artist making objects, environments, texts and images (both still and moving). They are an entity invested in tactile and screen mediated living, mystery, intimacy, slowness, labour and things that feel immeasurable or hard to prove.

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"We are All Limited People" + " Dance Like You've Never Been Hurt, Love Like You Don't Need The Money, Work Like No One's Watching". Vida Beyer.

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