SUPERCUT x KEEMON
26 September 2022 onwards
I’m Feeling A Little Down Under
KEEMON / I’m Feeling A Little Down Under 2022 / digital illustration / © Keemon
A Looney Tunes inspired landscape depicts a weary icon, splayed across a searing bed of sand, conceding defeat to the taunting sun. Reminiscent of a Wile E. Coyote scheme gone awry, a battered pink kangaroo embodies the futile pursuit of the perfect “Australian”.
I’ve always felt as though the label of Australian never really fit me. Like it was almost foreign in its implied meaning. Not everyone is archetypically protected under the romantic stereotypes of the venerated bloke and sheila. This leaves many to forge new and alternative ways of being in the land of plenty. I’m Feeling a Little Down Under pokes fun at the frustrations, hypocrisies and ironies of national identity, and the impact they have on the individual psyche.
Bruce Highway
1.4km south of Glenorchy
Northbound Maryborough Q 4650
(map here)
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Keemon is a queer Indigenous artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane) whose work seeks to dissolve preconceived archetypes of personal and broader identities. Employing an interdisciplinary approach to practice, he unpacks tensions of experience to reconcile a sense of Indigeneity in the everyday. He’s exhibited work in Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, QUT Art Museum, Museum of Brisbane, Metro Arts, The Walls, Wreckers Artspace, Kuiper Projects and SomoS Arts, Berlin.
Billboard documentation by Brendan Bufi
SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.