Gymnauseum by Jane Venis

The Dunedin sculptor's exhibition, on now, sends a message about consumption with its customised "gym equipment".

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5th November, 2011

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What is sculpture but a form of body-consciousness? Jane Venis takes this idea to its logical extreme in her exhibition Gymnauseum, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, with its display of customised “gym equipment”, relentless jazzercise surround-sound, and strident claims about an “exercise-free, diet-free, guilt-free” way to obtain a “firm-toned six-pack”, which was broadcast from the tinny speakers of a tiny computer screen. Here, the cult of physical fitness, as promoted through the hyperbole of TV informercials, is examined by an artist with subversion of the notions ...

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