Primary Instincts
COADY
October 10 - November 23, 2019
Building on her colloquial title of Pop Artist for the 21st century, Primary Instincts expandson Coadys’earlier works using pills as an encapsulation of our vices. Coadys’signature use of tablets serves as a visual stimulant, using shapes and colours to play with the iconography of contemporary consumerist culture and its promises of gratification, control and quick and easy fixes. In this exhibition, plastic pills and paintings explodein bright reds, yellows, blues and greens, evocative of childhood learning and games, creating a sense of familiarity and awakening our understanding of the complex layers of our conditioning from childhood. Primary Instincts peels back the layers of addiction, tying our dependency on medication to the manipulation of our most basic needs, security, comfort and control.
Read more
