#FOMO

Overview

#FOMO is a group art show that seeks to answer the age-old question: why can’t we just stay at home on a Saturday night watching reruns of Friends with our simple, earthly possessions and without the pangs of social unease?

Artereal Gallery have taken it upon themselves to appropriate the social ill and, in #FOMO, have extended the phenomenon past the fear of missing out on social events, to missing out on owning and consuming artwork. It’s good timing for Artereal Gallery too: ‘FOMO’ has been bandied around for a few years now, but everyone’s favourite acronym really reached internet slang stardom when it was officially included in the Oxford Dictionary alongside words like michelada, omnishambles and selfie (no link needed).

#FOMO curator Rhianna Walcott has chosen four emerging and established artists from Sydney to exhibit their FOMO-related art, including performance artist Liam Benson, Criena Court, Tully Arnot and Louise Zhang.

Not to be missed. Seriously.