BEN FROST & JOSH LORD - POETRY OF AN EMPIRE

Ben Frost joins Josh Lord in exploring the myths, symbols and commodities that shape contemporary life, where nostalgia collides with anxiety and beauty is inseparable from branding.

Working across painting, appropriation and contemporary pop iconography, Frost and Lord dismantle the familiar language of consumer culture and rebuild it into something both seductive and unsettling. Cartoon characters become modern saints. Corporate logos become relics of a fading civilisation. Fairy tales, comic books and pharmaceutical packaging collide with symbols of power, faith and consumption to expose a culture increasingly unable to distinguish between memory, advertising and belief.

Poetry of an Empire is an exhibition that is at once seductive, confrontational and darkly humorous.