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The Doom Buggies

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posted on 2025-03-27, 22:07 authored by DARREN SYLVESTERDARREN SYLVESTER
The Doom Buggies was part of Photo 2024 International Festival of Photography, investigating the dichotomy between high and low culture through a series of meticulously staged works, presented in a hyperreality that is equally wry and melancholic.

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  • Original Creative Work : Visual artwork

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Melbourne, Australia

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Neon Parc

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Neon Parc

Start Date

2024-03-01

End Date

2024-04-06

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photography

Research Statement

The Doom Buggies was an exhibition investigating the dichotomy between high and low culture through a series of meticulously staged works, presented in a hyperreality that is equally wry and melancholic. Sylvester’s work questions the tension between authenticity and desire within high-gloss consumer culture, by incorporating pop-cultural references that are hinted to, but just out of reach. In The Doom Buggies, Sylvester builds a series of elaborate, choreographed ‘dream’ stages, which reflect and refract a state of mind rather than place or narrative. It was the first time in my studio built photographic work that instead of elaborate sets, in it's place was choreographed ‘dream’ stages, which reflect and refract a state of mind rather than place or narrative. This feeling, as if being in a pop-music video; is simultaneously personable and detached, connected and disconnected, aware yet unaware. The exhibition was an exclusive as part of the Photo 2024 International Festival of Photography held across Victoria. In tandem with the exhibition the art work, 'Body be a soul' (2023) was also included in the Festival, presented at Treasury Place, Melbourne. Monumental in scale it depicts a prophetic face looking back towards us at an epic 10 metres tall.

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seven large scale photographic artworks

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