Spencer Harvie

Fever Dream, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne, 2023

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Installation view, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

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Installation view, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

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Installation view, KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

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ORB, Ink and graphite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

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REVEAL, Ink and grahite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

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INSIDE, Ink and grahite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

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MACHINE, Ink and grahite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

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COVER, Ink and grahite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

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ENLARGE, Ink and grahite on shaped canvas, 160cm x 125cm

This exhibition featured six large ink paintings, each depicting scenes from a supposed fever dream. These paintings were created by digitally enlarging small pencil drawings by 100%. The process of enlargement introduced a grainy black and white noise that became interwoven into the original drawings. In these works, this process visualizes the imperfect accuracy with which we remember our bad dreams and encode digital images.

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