Gala Kirke

C.W.S. (Celebrity Worship Syndrome)

24 August - 11 September

“Fame has become the ideological and intellectual fabric of modern capitalism. Ours is the economy of fame.” (Tyler Cowen, NZ Listener, July 12-18th, pp.30)

Celebrities…

Beautiful People…

Popular heroes…

The ideal beauty…

This multimedia installation looks at the ways in which the distinctions between the real and unreal have become blurred in our media saturated lives. Integrating the worlds of commercialism and fine art, Kirke explores the obvious delusion the public has developed in recent years, an obsession with false charm and idealized ideas of the real. In portraying this fantasy, this ‘virtual truth’, the project balances between the humorous and the sad, the short-lived and the timeless and attempts to integrate the worlds of commercialism and fine art

CWS (Celebrity Worship Syndrome) is now a recognized symptom of our star-struck society.