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The Cost of Living
Khaled Sabsabi Guerilla 2014 (detail). Acrylic, watercolour and gouache on colour photographs, 9.3 x 14 each (image) 33 units. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2014.
The Cost of Living
This collection display explores how understandings and misunderstandings of value shape art and everyday life.
Featuring several new contemporary acquisitions alongside collection highlights, it looks at what and how we place value impacts the way we relate to each other physically, emotionally, and economically.
The display ranges from paintings like Vivienne Shark LeWitt’s painting $49.95 about the transactional nature of social relationships to Khaled Sabsabi’s hand-painted photos of bomb-blasted Beirut that make up his ongoing series Guerilla.
Other artists featured include Anne Wallace, Pat Brassington, Peter Cooley, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Richard Giblett, Catherine Opie, Robert Dickerson and Ronnie Van Hout.
Despite the weighty there is a lot of fun, dark humour and moody positivity in play too. The artists’ creative outcomes and strategies are themselves affirming of possibility, of hopeful purpose. They may not cure or transcend difficulties though they might help cope with small-and large-scale challenges, shine light on inequity and gradually build paths beyond them.
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What is the price of living in the ways we do? What do we value, and who decides? How do we make livings and meanings that get in the way of flourishing? And who gets to define what flourishing means?
The Cost of Living floats these questions through art works on various themes such as: the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war and the impact of social media.
AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art
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Nusra Latif Qureshi Medusa's respite room 2017. Acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 33.0 x 25.5 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 2018.
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Vivienne LeWitt $49.95 1990. Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 71 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2020.
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Anne Wallace In retrospect 1994. Oil on canvas, 198 x 122 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2022. © Anne Wallace, 1994.
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Vincent Namatjira Gina Rinehart and me II 2017. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas,91 x 122 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2017. © Vincent Namatjira, 2017.
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Richard Giblett Sump system II (Frontier) 2018. Gouache on paper, four framed panels: 100 x 200 cm each. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased, 2019.
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Tala Madani Salesman 2014. Oil on canvas, 40.8 x 45.8cm (irregular). The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2018.
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Catherine Opie Rainbow Falls #2 2015. Pigment print, 114.3 x 76.2 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2019.
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Peter Cooley Untitled (Hedy Lamarr shoplifting) 1987. Gouache on paper, 38.1 x 28.2 cm. The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Gift of John McBride in honour of Dr Stefano Carboni (Gallery Director: 2008-2019) through the Commonwealth Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2020.
