Khazi is a solo exhibition from emerging Perth-based artist Lily Kaiser that considers the private life of public spaces. Taking the inauspicious public toilet as subject, Kaiser shows how places of designed impersonality, dispassion and civil utility are possessed of a secret, subversive character.
Framed in the lost language of Polari—the secret dialect of criminals, carnies and clandestine hookups—Kaiser’s sculptural collages and ceramic tile works show these spaces as alternatively melancholy, mysterious, lewdly light-hearted and downright sordid.
Image credit:
Lilly Kaiser, Cottage 2020, ceramic pool tiles, cement, plywood
