'Alldie' Art Supermarket

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Posted 2021-12-16 by Jen ⇒ follow

Mon 03 Jan 2022 - Sun 09 Jan 2022

Pop-artist Caragh Brooks will be exhibiting her ALLDIE temporary art project/pop-up exhibition for a limited time from 3-9 January 2022 from 2-7pm daily at Fitzroy Gardens, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The ALLDIE exhibition will be at the Pavilion, next to the Model Tudor Village by the Fairies Tree near Clarendon Street. It's a 2 min walk from Jolimont Rail Station.

Opening Night will be on 3 Jan 2022 from 5-8pm. All of the art in the store is for sale but be warned, they are for the most part inedible and unsettling as replicas. You're encouraged to shop till you drop. Literally.

Set in the lush surrounds, this is an anti-supermarket filled with satirical art by the darkly comic Caragh Brooks. ALLDIE Supermarket . Good. Indifferent. Lockdowns and stockpiling might be a thing of the past, but if you still want to get into punch-ons over toilet paper, you're most welcome to swing by for some inessentials and dread according to Brooks. You'll find familiar favourites like 'Donteathos Corn Chips', 'Turkish Disgust', and 'Burgers Things'.

Inedible replicas they may be; it may still bring you a lot of pleasure for its outrageous indifference. So, if you're not totally broke after busting out for Christmas and New Year's, ALLDIE is the perfect way to part with your cash. It'll be fun to check out this subversive and immersive experience that explores capitalistic notions of consumerism and supermodernity situations of excessive information and excessive space, while transforming the transitory, non-place of a supermarket into a must-see destination.

Brooks' visual art has shown at galleries such as Off the Kerb, Alternating Current, and Tacit. In 2009 Brooks gained international notoriety with a live art intervention, whereby she flew to Illinois USA, becoming the first person to get married in a Taco Bell Restaurant (to a man she'd met online). She is co-host of the 'A Hill to Die On' podcast. Her recently published work Mostly True Stories, was shortlisted for the 2020 Ledger Comic/Graphic Novel Award.

This exhibition/body of work functions as a critique of contemporary Western culture through the use of cartoons, sculpture and text-based works. It is equal parts ethnology and misanthropy. Find out more about the event and artist via the links given. The website also has a listing of other upcoming events.