Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation detail, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation detail, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation detail, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane Eighty-five Per Cent Reality 2005. Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Scott McFarlane
Eighty-five Per Cent Reality
22 October 2005 - 12 February 2006
Shards of ancient pots serve as clues for archaeologists as they piece together past civilisations, but the time and place glimpsed in Scott McFarlane's wall full of shards is recognisably Otago in 2005. Using the ancient art-form of painted pottery to present signs of twenty-first century life, McFarlane suggests how the present might look from the vantage-point of the future — a museum display of enigmatic fragments.