Paul Caporn - Modified
An ART ON THE MOVE touring exhibition

20 March - 16 May

Modified presents new works by WA artist Paul Caporn, satirically engaging with ideas of masculinity and cultural identity, and playing with the ideas of customisation (hotting up) and the ‘backyard blitz’.

This show is built around five main pieces – Tool box, Barbie Mate, Life Boy, Excess and Mowing the Medium Strip. These works are accompanied by a series of anodized aluminium prints and photographs that reflect engineering drawings and media product shots.

Playing with interpretations on male domesticity, desire, consumption, and production, familiar objects have been modified, re-negotiating their utility, aesthetic qualities and cultural significance.

Image: Paul Caporn, Barbie Mate 2005, archival ink jet print