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Solo Exhibition: The Harbingers at Lustre Contemporary
October 8-31, 2026
Via a blundering convergence of art history, mythology, & contemporary life, The Harbingers humorously reflect on the stories we create to make sense of the unknown. Set in a whimsical world rife with hubris & overconsumption, entities spiced with undertones of apathy, joy, societal confusion & apocalyptic dread wander flooding & droughting landscapes. The beings in these narratives seek transfiguration into a more enlightened state, however their behaviour remains decidedly human. In this world, pink does not lead us to a place of sweet innocence, & a warning is faintly heard through the din.
Text by Miss Goethe’s Ekphrasis: Pink Milk Drink: the farce of pink, therianthropic misery, and the survival of kitsch
“The artist Pink Milk Drink, taking advantage of this quality of pink, makes a series of paintings… where it seems that the characters live “la vie en rose”. At a pre-iconographic level, the colors and shapes are roughly pleasant. Pink has a dominant role and even different shades coexist in one piece. The chromatic is mostly warm, although the minority presence of green, blue colors and the eruption of black end up breaking the stability of the pink and its companions, orange, red and yellow. However, a more comprehensive analysis serves to unravel the iconography of Pink Milk Drink, discovering that pink doesn’t refer to positivity, doesn’t lead us to a place of complete happiness, but that “[u]n pink world is too beautiful to be true.” There is nothing of happiness, joy, sweetness or innocence in the pieces of our protagonist. What plasma in his compositions is an ode to the possibilities of transfiguration, not understood from a Christian point of view, even though some of his pieces do cover works of art based on the Bible, with a critical optic, guasonous and a bit of kitsch. It must be understood as a synonym for metamorphosis, of a change of form. Thus, the character starring his works is a theriomorph with the head of an equine, meanwhile the rest of the body is of a human being.”
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by Miss Goethe’s Ekphrasis / Andrea Garcia Casal (translated)
interview by Miss Goethe’s Ekphrasis
MG: What personal relationship do you have with the colour pink: childhood memories, objects, advertising, pop culture…?
pmd: There is something fascinatingly polarizing about pink. Growing up pink was very gendered, and as a farm kid, I didn’t have pink things. As an adult, pink seemed reserved for uber femmes. Pink flamingos were the epitome of kitsch. Then the Barbie movie came out and pink was everywhere. Now the pendulum is swinging back to where pink is tacky again. I find this fluctuation and polarizing cultural relationship to pink fascinating – what other colour do people have such strong feelings about?? This is fertile ground.
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‘postcards from hell‘ Exhibition Review by Andrew Harper: Hell’s Creepy Comforts
Solo Exhibition: postcards from hell
postcards from hell at Penny Contemporary in Hobart, Tasmania
Sept 6 – oct 1, 2024
