POWER DOLL, 2025
for Ghost in the Machine, Outer Space, Brisbane
for Ghost in the Machine, Outer Space, Brisbane
Documentation by Louis Lim. Courtesy of Outer Space.
Digital Prints, Mixed Media Frames (Chain, foam, clay, gunpla, sand, glue, stone, Hand-Made Keychains), Mural (3mx1.5m)
POWER DOLL explores the identification with and sympathy for complicated characters. Rooted in the Mecha genre cockpit shots of mech pilots- either at the apex of or in the aftermath of disaster and violence, by their own hands or the mechanised hands of others.
The machines are instruments of war, made and guided by corporate-political-military forces, and it presents its pilots with a choice to give in or to change. Maybe they can be redeemed. Do the right thing. Be forgiven, and have past transgressions washed clean.