BOO!

Boo! For maybe 100 years we’ve said that ghosts say “boo”! But what do ghosts really say and is the word really more about onomatopoeia, many people fear ghosts and many people fear Aboriginal people.

Cope’s piece for Dead Ringer is site-specific. This piece is a text work in black light that meditates on fear and clichéd ghost encounters. Flickering and only visible by ascending the creaky stairs to the second floor, her hand-written piece catches us unaware. A comic antidote but also perhaps a warning that echoes upon our retina in a neon after-image… BOO! 21

From Leigh Robb’s curatorial statement for Dead Ringer:
"Featuring work by Australian and international artists, Dead Ringer seeks to draw forth the doppelgangers, ghosts and bad copies that haunt us. The exhibition unites an original group of artists whose works negotiate the extremes of portraiture by reproducing reality through painting, photography, cast objects, and 3D virtual worlds. This group show connects artists across artforms, cultures and time zones. Drawing on theories of quantum entanglement, parallel worlds, stolen identities and exact duplicates, Dead Ringer is about identity crisis in the post-internet age.”

EXHIBITION HISTORY
Dead Ringer, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2015

Documentation by by Alessandro Bianchetti