Rich and Fabulous
Deej Fabryc and Elvis Richardson
Artists Deej Fabyc and Elvis Richardson exhibitions
feed off, and into, each others in the collaborative project
RICH AND FABULOUS. Richardsons (an Australian artist currently
based in New York) work Slide Show Land is a collection of collections
of over 30,000 family and travel slides from hundreds of different
families dating from 1940 - 1995 , advertised and purchased
through various Internet sites. The geography of collected images
spans Cape Cod, Paris, South Africa, a vast global spread of other
peoples adventures. So generic they are familiar, through
this work we enter unfamiliar lives even if they do not seem to
be so different from ours.
A more intimate, if still anonymous, glimpse into
the private lives of others is shown in Deej Fabycs (an Australian/UK
artist) video work KJs Story. A compilation of family photographs
from a woman known to us only as KJ, who sings a poignant kareoke
soundtrack (REMs Everybody Hurts) over the top, this work
serves to activate the images in Slide Show Land, through the tender.subjectivity
of this memorabilia. Alongside this work is I Am Me You Are You,
a collaborative piece with Fabycs daughter, where cardboard
box beds hold a collection of small dolls, tucked up for sleep,
each one lit by the soft glow of an individual night-light. With
an accompanying video of her daughter Beata Jean Lockheart, reciting
I Am Me You Are You over and over, this work contemplates the process
of developing subjectivity, or becoming an individual self.
EssayWelcome
to Slide Show Land by Raimundas Malasauskas
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The Press, May 30, 2002, p 32
Dorothee Pauli
Mark Harvey, Deej Fabyc, Elvis Richardson.
RICH AND FABULOUS : Deej Fabyc & Elvis Richardson
Essay by Rosemary Forde
In The Physics Room Annual 2002
ISBN# 0-9582359-1-0
Welcome to Slide Show Land
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