MICHAEL FIKARIS
WHERE ENDS MEET
30.08.24 ~ 15.09.24
On one end is our ability to communicate and work together in building, breaking down and rebuilding. On the other end is the brutal needs of capitalism driving the idea of unending profit. Where Ends Meet is an impression of the in-between.
These pieces are the reification of comics art – taking apart comic pages filled with graphic images, panels, composition and narrative to give myself extra focus on minimalist pleasures, slowing down in colour sections and mono mark making. The in between.
The work is about not falling into the capitalist trap of unending pressure. It is about resisting the logic of labour being purchased for money. It is about reflecting on my own practice from the point of view to develop encounters of transparency where we can aim for real collaboration. Each work is a token of the in between.
- MIchael Fikaris
THE WORKER
CHRIS PARKINSON
There’s a deep sense of accumulation that underpins the work of Michael Fikaris. For more than a decade, he has insisted on “taking the line for a walk.” This exhibition shows us how his wander lustful lines have led to a discipline void of boundaries, an accumulation of the pitter patter of the multitude.
In his Worker, a faceless, nameless, raceless, ageless, androgynous metaphor of humanity, we sense how the air hangs around the character as we sense their materiality, understanding the worker’s representation in relationship to what is going on beyond the frame as much as we understand its relationships tumbling from the frame.
As Michael draws from the multitude, he casts that competency back towards us, sign posting how the avant-garde, the comic, the benevolent, the public, the network, the mischievous, the honest and the abstract hold space together in both the picture plane and the plane of human existence.
HUMAN WORK
