One of Australia’s most respected contemporary artist duos Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro will present new work in a free public exhibition at Art Space on The Concourse in Chatswood from 9 August until 3 September 2023. The artists, who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2009, present Persistence of Vision; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, an exhibition comprising mosaic renderings of the paranormal created out of well worn, second-hand pieces of Lego – chosen for its nostalgic and playful overtones. With this new body of work Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro explore spectres of the past and the delusions of the near-present in an exhibition that questions our fascination with fear and the phantastic.

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Enfield Poltergeist (detail), 2023, repurposed Lego Claire Healy / Sean Cordeiro.
Photo: Osamu and Occam’s Box Cutter, 2023, repurposed Lego