Darren Sylvester, Snow Angel, 2024. Archival inkjet print, 160 x 120cm. Courtesy: the artist and Neon Parc, Melbourne.

Neon Parc presents a solo exhibition by Darren Sylvester to be held at Neon Parc Brunswick.

In The Doom Buggies, Sylvester builds a series of elaborate, choreographed ‘dream’ stages, which reflect and refract a state of mind rather than place or narrative. This feeling, as if being in a pop-music video, is simultaneously personable and detached, connected and disconnected, aware yet unaware.

Sylvester’s meticulously staged, hyper-real works investigate the dichotomy between high and low culture. His practice combines staged photography, sculpture and installation, with each piece the result of detailed research and planning. Sylvester’s work questions the tension between authenticity and desire within high-gloss consumer culture, by incorporating pop-cultural references that are hinted to, but just out of reach.

Sylvester’s exhibition will be part of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography, along with a ten-metre outdoor installation of the artists’s work, Body be a Soul in the Treasure Precinct, CBD which is included in the curated exhibition Uncanny Valley: Photography, Tech and the Hyperreal.

The Doom Buggies is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.

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