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17 December 2010
Alannah Brown: Drink your Medicine | Karin Hofko: On & On: The Rotating Video Collection
Alannah Brown was born and raised in Clyde, Central Otago.
Drink your Medicine combines nostalgia for an idyllic rural
upbringing with the hard realities of farming and growing
up. “Drink your medicine” is the forceful command given
to a child by a parent who knows what is best. The farmer,
however, is driven not so much by compassion but the need to
produce healthy livestock in order to earn a living. After
all at the end of the day the animals will usually be sold
or slaughtered and it is best not to form emotional
attachments. Brown’s paintings combine to create a
disconcerting body of work. The viewer is pulled in
different directions, experiencing guilt/pleasure,
delight/disgust, attraction/repulsion, familiarity/
unfamiliarity, fantasy/fiction.
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