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Carly Fischer – artist statement – exhibition (116 words)

Select the correct word from the vocabulary list below to complete the missing words in this artist statement.
Words for vocabulary quiz
context, appropriated, cultural, propositions, installation, reflect, reference

Carly Fischer
From Little Things Big Things Grow

From Little Things Big Things Grow is a sculptural [select] that reflects on how contemporary drives towards a more cultural, environmental and political awareness in Australia have been used by corporations to market their products. Drawing on the famous protest song by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody, the installation asks whether such [select] resistance can escape being [select], commodified and sold back to us as gentrified lifestyle packages. In the installation, these products and the cultural objects they [select] are reassembled, remixed and reconstructed as strange hybrid sculptural [select]. Shape-shifting between home furnishings, totems, makeshift armatures and props, the sculptures [select] on the complex and often contradictory repurposing of cultural resistance in a contemporary Australian [select].

Answers
1. installation, 2. cultural, 3. appropriated, 4. reference 5. propositions 6. reflect 7. context

Carly Fischer
From Little Things Big Things Grow, 2017
Sculptural installation at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
©Copyright Carly Fischer