White Goods 2004
White Goods is a work of speculative fiction; four of the seven images in the series are shown above and were installed at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts for the 2015 exhibition Accident and Process. A Visions of Australia touring survey exhibition. From left to right/ top to bottom: White Goods 4, 6, 2, and 3.
White Goods, “… contemplates the fundamental inability of a dominant culture to ‘see’ another and to recognise concentrated degrees of abuse. Kreckler is interested here in the condition of the crowd – its ordered informality before acts of violence, its final submission to the simple, good things in life at the expense of intervention on behalf of others. It is, to a degree, analogous to our willing inability to see what lies before our eyes – the strange (the horrendous) is absorbed within the everyday business of a spectacle-based culture.”
Blair French, DEREK KRECKLER: ALLEGORIES OF VISION
First published in Isabel Carlos, curator and ed., On Reason and Emotion: The 2004 Biennale of Sydney, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: The Biennale of Sydney, 2004