Amanda Wolf and Joseph Breikers: Life, Death and Miscellaneous

Overview

Amanda Wolf and Joseph Breikers are two Brisbane-based artists who aren't afraid to poke around in the dark, humorous side of art. Their latest collaborative exhibition, Life, Death and Miscellaneous, does just that as they examine the deep, dark getaways of two of literary fiends.

Wolf and Breikers use the work of Patrick Suskind's novel Perfume and Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and the Margarita to explore the transformative places that lie beyond plain sight. In Perfume, the protagonist slithers away from the world into a cave on the Plomb du Cantal — and in Master and the Margarita, Satan holds the hell -raising Spring Valley of the Full Moon in a dimension beyond the known. Ipso facto, these guys caved out the two ultimate grottos.

Through disrupted and abstract art, Life, Death and Miscellaneous explores the cave as both a physical and psychological space. As both a sanctuary and place of exile, Wolf and Breifers dig deep to define what the grimmest of hollow spaces have come to represent in this exhibition. If you've got a keen interest in the unknown, we suggest you check it out.

Image: 'Big Toe 3', Joseph Breikers, 2015, Digital image (dimensions variable).