Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP), Vancouver
Kim Kennedy Austin
Get Ready for ... Future Shock, 2020
Watercolour on paper
11 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Location: Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver-based Kim Kennedy Austin’s paintings and drawings entice viewers to join her in her investigations into the fading traces of bygone culture. In this work, Austin has drawn her text...
Vancouver-based Kim Kennedy Austin’s paintings and drawings entice viewers to join her in her investigations into the fading traces of bygone culture. In this work, Austin has drawn her text from the prose of pop culture, from an unlikely a source as an old magazine. “Future Shock” refers to a 1970 book by futurist, Alvin Toffler, which vividly describes the emerging era of globalization, and the impact on people of too much change in too short a time. This work, made while the artist was in self-isolation for Covid-19, 50 years later, nonetheless captures the psychological state of groups overwhelmed by change.