Gallery 2.2 | Free
Samoan-Australian artist Chantal Fraser’s multimedia practice has garnered significant acclaim within Australian contemporary art and reflects the complexity of lived experiences for diasporic Samoan and Pasifika communities. Exploring ritual, adornment and gestures of exchange, Fraser’s works make use of a vast array of artistic, musical and spiritual sources, from global pop culture to folk and customary practices. The Ascended crystallises Fraser’s exploration of power and class through her anti-colonial and anti-capitalist strategies, developing a theory that links ornamentation, personal protective devices and protest aesthetics as means to subvert and liberate identities.
Chantal Fraser: The Ascended is a Griffith University Art Museum touring exhibition, curated by Naomi Evans.
Chantal Fraser Fantômas Gold 2023, welding helmet, adhesive, acrylic rhinestones, metallic glass shards, 30 x 26 x 21.5cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Louis Lim