{"id":14685,"date":"2022-06-15T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/stock\/echo-ii-2\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:30:48","slug":"echo-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/stock\/echo-ii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo II"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">from the series <i>Polari<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">c-type print on Fuji Pearl Metallic Paper<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">100 x 100 cm<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">edition 2 of 5 + 2AP<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">$12,000 framed in black<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">EXHIBITED<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i>Polari,<\/i> Gallery Gabrielle Pizz, Melbourne, Australia<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Ritual intimacy, curated by Charlotte Day and Hetti Perkins Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Echo II <\/i>is part of the 2014 series <i>Polari<\/i>. The exhibition\u2019s title, <i>Polari<\/i>, refers to a centuries-old slang dialect originating in Britain but in use throughout the English-speaking world by various subcultures, including homosexuals as well as prostitutes, actors, and carnival workers. Thompson\u2019s investigation into evolving identity through changing appearance can be seen to echo the use of Polari as a form of disguise for the many communities that employ it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>In Echo II,<\/i> 2014 Thompson appears with white-painted skin, staring wistfully into the distance. The artist wears a white and black feathered headpiece, nestled amongst apparently natural curls. The tones of the feathers advance and recede against respectively white and black backgrounds in each image.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The deceptively minimal yet strong compositions Thompson has employed in<i> Echo II<\/i> continues the artist\u2019s investigation into the role played by embellishment and disguise in the creation of personal and sexual <\/span><span class=\"s1\">identity. This intriguing work invites the viewer to enter a shared space of intentional ambiguity with Thompson and his alter egos.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14686,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14685","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"location-sydney","7":"product_cat-private-sales","8":"product_shipping_class-large-works","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}