Artists statement

Carly Fischer’s painstakingly assembled paper sculptures mediate on the knife edge between reality and staged reality, reproduction and it’s re-absorption as the real. In the era of reality TV, viewers we are become increasingly aware of an ability to manufacture the real: even as we tidy our own lounge rooms before friends visit: which coffee table books shall we have on display? Fischer’s work commodifies everyday detritus. She cleanses it of its reality residue, polishes its rough edges, and re-presents it to us as desirable, miniature, flawless. As Fischer notes, ‘In the installation, paper/board model replicas of broken household objects assume their places carefully in a junk pile, presenting themselves as perfect but precarious possibilities.’

Carly Fischer was born in 1978 in Melbourne. She studied Painting at RMIT University before undertaking Honours in Sculpture in 2000. She has undertaken residencies in Berlin and LA, and currently lives and works in Melbourne.