Twin Peaks is the first solo exhibition in Western Australia from Brisbane-born artist Dan McCabe.
Bringing together aspects of form and representation investigated in his previous work, McCabe has extended the image off the wall to create the enormous mountain-like structure that is Twin Peaks. In this sculptural installation, romantic depictions of suburban neighbourhoods and industrial yards cover giant angular fabric panels, spliced together and overlaid with pencil scribbles.
In its fragmented and laconic exploration of the aesthetics of the urban Australian landscape, Twin Peaks plays with the material nature of the photographic image, blurring the boundary between two-dimensional representation and independent sculptural object. In approaching the installation the viewer is left to navigate the work as both sculptural landscape and photographic landscape, an altitude somewhere between peak and valley.
Image credit:
Dan McCabe, Twin Peaks (2020)
Photographic print on synthetic fabric,
aluminium and Tasmanian oak
