Video: My shocking Valentine: "Valentines" with black humor by Chris Mundy and Greg Lockhart
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Australian artists Chris Mundy and Greg Lockhart with their new cycle of "greeting" cards, they decided to destroy all stereotypes regarding the blessed holiday of St. Valentine. I would like to see a guy who will give his girlfriend a postcard that says "I love you so much that I ate your used plaster."
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and, apparently, that is why Mundy and Lockhart decided to please those lovers who are already fed up with "traditional" greetings, flowers and sweets. Who knows - maybe it is in such wild forms that someone's true love is manifested? Valentines Mundy and Lockhart can be compared with the idea of the popular in Russia stickers "Love is …", brought to the point of absurdity.
And Chris Mundy, Greg Lockhart hails from Melbourne. By now, they have already managed to become the organizers of an art project called Hubbawelcomewhose work is "inspired by the Internet culture and psychology of the generation that grew up in the information society."
Hubbawelcome is not alone in making its contribution to the celebration of February 14th. The controversial representative of the "new British artists" Tracy Emin this year she prepared a special installation in New York, and the Akropolis entertainment center opened a special "Chocolate room" back in 2011. In contrast to these greetings, Mundy and Lockhart's postcards are best perceived as a simple "online gag": after all, the Australian duo does not deny its direct affiliation with the teenage Internet community.
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