Exhibition: Katherine Moline | The College of Fine Arts
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Exhibition: Katherine Moline
Article released: Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
COFA staff Katherine Moline has a professional interest in the concept of uselessness. She is
active in theorizing the cross-over between the histories and theories of fine art and design.
Outside the parameters of design theory and functionalist criticism uselessness begins to look a
lot like art. While Moline is keen to capitalize on the sensorial adventures art can trigger, it is
mainly to disrupt the norms of appropriate behaviour around artworks. Working with both degraded
materials and newly formed synthetics such as rubber finishes, bonded aluminium , old clothes and
surplus bra-cups, her salvage reinserts them into another system, where, rescued for a different
kind of uselessness, as she puts it, “art reflects and refuses what goes on generally". An
exhibition of her redeemed and reinstated 'useless' objects are on exhibit at Yuill/ Crowley
gallery from 10 July to 11 August.
When: 10 July – 11 August 2008
Where: Yuill/Crowley Gallery 5th floor, 4-14 Foster St,
Surry Hills
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