Unbearable Incandescence presents a series of works interrogating the paradoxical search for reality in a world of simulation and appearance. Through a series of hyperreal textile works, sculptor Chloe Smith unravels the cruel optimism of certainty and the truths we must ultimately craft for ourselves. A birthday cake awaits its single sumptuous moment. An absurdly large bunch of asparagus stands proudly phallic, valorised on a broken plinth. The lines between reality and the surreal blur beyond recognition, where the serious is suddenly silly, where memories become fiction and fiction becomes a memory.
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Otto Becomes Woolfie 2023. Courtesy the artist.
