PLATFORM: Public art installation

PLATFORM 2009-2012 is an ongoing series of changing public artworks designed to continually engage, inform and entertain.

Four times a year for the next three years, Museum of Brisbane will commission artworks that will be installed into photographic lightboxes located on the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Busway Station. These lightboxes are situated on the elevated carriageway of the Inner Northern Busway along Boven Bridge Road, Herston, directly in front of the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital and opposite the RNA Showgrounds. The project literally provides a platform for the launch of artists, ideas and community notions that are deeply connected to the location. PLATFORM has been devised by the Public Art Unit, Project Services, is curated by Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council and has received financial assistance throgh Arts Queensland from art+place, the Queensland Government's Public Art Fund.

Current artist on show Friday 11 December - Friday 12 March 2010.

Inbound Platform
MICHAEL ZAVROS
Debaser Series 1-4 2009

The erased faces that form Zavros' ongoing Debaser series speak of the impermanence of beauty and youth. They play with the power of the gaze. By removing their features, their markers of individuality, they are turned into statues or ciphers onto which personal aspirations and emotions may be projected.

The title comes from The Pixies song Debaser, which is based on the famous surrealist film Un Chien Andalou, a film about the debasement of society and social mores.

Outbound Platform
MICHAEL ZAVROS
She, Ice, Time, He 2009

Zavro's 'skulls' reference a long art historical tradition of memento mori painting, in which material wealth was displayed as part of a tableaux that would include a skull or a plate of decaying fruit as a metaphor for mortality. These portraits explore contemporary society's attitude of conspicuous consumption as the evocation of one's personality.

Images:
Above right:
Time 2009 Digital print.

Above middle:
Debaser Series 1-4 2009 Digital print.