EXHIBITION LAUNCH
”This won’t last”
Thursday 2 October, 6-8pm
Verge Gallery
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Chris Dolman, This won’t last, 2025, studio image. Image courtesy of the artist.
Join Verge in celebrating the launch of This won’t last by Chris Dolman.
This won’t last is an installation that takes on ideas of the contemporary ruin to explore impermanence, disembodiment, failure, and decay.
Can a ruin ever be complete, or is its essence always in the process of becoming? Do ideas shape the world more through their clarity or their ambiguity? Is a ruin a mask, or a memory unravelling?
Through hand building and sandcasting, layered monoprints and soundscapes, disguised office furniture, field recordings, and videos on phones, the work draws on fragments of personal history, speaks to the artist studio as a site of ruin, and speculates on a collective dystopic future that is quickly closing in.
Food and drink provided at the launch. All welcome.
Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.
VENUE ACCESS
Wheelchair access - there are two lifts available: one on City Rd and one on Maze Crescent.
Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located about 90 metres from Verge. They are equipped with a handrail. A baby-change table is available.
Guide Dogs and support animals are welcome at Verge.
For detailed access information to the venue, please visit the Access page on our website.
If you have any further questions, suggestions, or would like any information in another format, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at vergeassistant@usu.edu.au, or via phone at (02) 9563 6218.