Quarter One: Archie Moore, Platform 2025 and Skibidi Toilet at the Institute of Modern Art
Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art kicks off the new year with Quarter One, a trio of unmissable exhibitions marking the first quarter of IMA’s 50th anniversary artistic program.
Exhibition highlights include Archie Moore’s Comic Paintings, a series from 2005 reflecting on the Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist’s childhood experiences of bullying, poverty and shame through the lens of an ironic connection to the all-American comic character Archie Andrews. In the series Moore, who recently took home the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, offers a raw and poignant glimpse into identity and resilience.
Elsewhere, Platform 2025 is the second iteration of IMA’s annual commission of large-scale installations by emerging Queensland artists. Shannon Toth’s work combines timber, confectionery and sound in sticky, thrumming assemblages that explore the awkward aspects of embodiment; Jarrod van der Ryken’s video installations evoke spaces of illicit sexual encounters – dens, saunas and beats; and Koa, Kuku Yalanji and Meriam Mir artist Keemon Williams queers tropes of indigeneity and “Australianness” through comic experimentation.
Finally, in the screening room, immerse yourself in none other than Skibidi Toilet – yep, the viral Youtube phenomenon by Alexey Gerasimov (aka Boom). In the first institutional exhibition of the ongoing series, meme culture and video games abound in an epic, bizarre clash of gen alpha cultural touchstones, surrealist film and sheer chaos.
Quarter One is on now at the Institute of Modern Art. Entry is free.
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