Pascale Giorgi
  • the rock pool
  • the rock pool dinner
  • out of bounds
  • Putting on Clown Make-up
  • CLOISTERFUCK
  • Melville Contemporary Art Prize 2021
  • Sculpture by the Sea
  • Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2021
  • Hero's Journey Art Prize
  • Novoeval Bush Banquet
  • I, Vulgaris
  • Agrifutura
  • Bun Scott
  • Bio
  • the rock pool
  • the rock pool dinner
  • out of bounds
  • Putting on Clown Make-up
  • CLOISTERFUCK
  • Melville Contemporary Art Prize 2021
  • Sculpture by the Sea
  • Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2021
  • Hero's Journey Art Prize
  • Novoeval Bush Banquet
  • I, Vulgaris
  • Agrifutura
  • Bun Scott
  • Bio
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Cloisterfuck
Pascale Giorgi & Guy Louden
13 August – 5 September 2021

​Photos by Guy Louden

Supported by DLGSC.
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Cloisterfuck is an exhibition of sculpture, digital, and baked goods that adopt the forms of Gothic art and architecture. The medieval age tends to stand for the base and bodily, the grotesque and esoteric. This show considers how the chaos of the dark ages could represent different and empowering ways of thinking and being.

For Pascale Giorgi, the medieval peasant becomes a potential symbol of folk power and bodily autonomy. Medieval defensive architecture is warped and kneaded into objects of personal preservation that dream of rebellions and toppled kingdoms.  A ceramic castle shields a sourdough starter, and a fort made from baked bread encloses speakers playing peasant folk-electro.

Guy Louden’s work emphasises a parallel between Gothic ways of thinking and our own – increasingly contemporary systems of knowledge appear obscure, esoteric, and grotesque. 3D scans of medieval sculpture are rendered into flat and glitched icons, hand-illuminated and mounted on blackened wood. In a custom video game, a maze generates around the player, an algorithm spiralling around our every click.

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Pascale Giorgi, Crenellated vessel with loopholes (defensive earthenware for sourdough mother), 2021, glazed terracotta, sourdough mother made from the recipe of Pliny the Elder.
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Pascale Giorgi, Part-time peasant, part-time baker + part-time candlestick maker (An enclosure of wheat ready for harvest), 2021, terracotta, sprouted wheat, soil.
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OOooooOOOoooooOOOoooo (delegate of the gargoyle contrada), 2021, concrete, wood, digital print on chiffon.
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Guy Louden, Neoneogothic 1, 2 &3, 2021, digital render from 3D scans, inkjet print, wood panel, white gold leaf.
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Donjon rave (bulk ferment á la Rochester), 2021, sourdough rye, millet and wheat bread, wood, speakers. Music by Davide Barbafiera.
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Pascale Giorgi, Monument to the Vanquished Peasant in red (after Durer after Peyo), 2021, soy wax, wax dye
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OOooooOOOoooooOOOoooo (delegate of the gargoyle contrada), 2021, concrete, wood, digital print on chiffon.
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Guy Louden, Neoneogothic 3, 2021, digital render from 3D scans, inkjet print, wood panel, white gold leaf.
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  • the rock pool
  • the rock pool dinner
  • out of bounds
  • Putting on Clown Make-up
  • CLOISTERFUCK
  • Melville Contemporary Art Prize 2021
  • Sculpture by the Sea
  • Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2021
  • Hero's Journey Art Prize
  • Novoeval Bush Banquet
  • I, Vulgaris
  • Agrifutura
  • Bun Scott
  • Bio