Ornament and Crime
“…underneath the idea of the apparition of God in the mirror of images, they already enacted his death and his disappearance in the epiphany of his representations – which they perhaps knew no longer represented anything, and that they were purely a game, but that this was precisely the greatest game – knowing also that it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them.”
- Jean Baudrillards 'Simulations'
Gabriella Lo Presti is a Sydney based artist, having completed her Masters of Fine Art at The National Art School, Australia. Interested in the hyperreal and the nature of place, her current practice is an investigation into the manifestation of the ambiguity of identity realised in the aesthetic of the everyday. Seeking to better understand the history and function of common aesthetic features, how these features affect the individual, be it behaviourally or upon one’s sense of identity, are a consequence of social relationships and norms, and to an extent, a realisation of moral, national and political ideologies. Her work translates the subtleties of the commonplace into a language of the other.