Emma Wright: Persona non kata

Overview

"Stereotypes: there must be more to life," sang Blur back in '95, and wiser Brit-pop lyrics have never been crooned. More than two decades later, it's a sentiment photo media artist Emma Wright also aims to explore in her first solo exhibition, Persona non kata.

Consider her pieces a response to widely held, over-simplified ideas and beliefs, as well as a way of sparking conversation. Using constructed scenes and performance, she responds to easily misunderstood social shortcuts, turning them into absurd self-fulfilling prophecies and challenging the viewer to label her.

How that process turns out is up to each audience member, of course — and that's the point. Until October 9, you can witness her compositions at POP Gallery in Woolloongabba, and probe your reactions in the process. All your life you are dreaming, and then you stop dreaming, as Albarn and his bandmates would put it.

Image: Emma Wright Here we go again 2016. Inkjet print on rag matte paper. 85 x 120cm.