This Hideous Replica

23rd October – 16th November, 2024. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control. 

Exhibition includes works by Amy May Stuart, Angie Waller, Anna Vasof, Debris Facility, Diego Ramírez, Emile Zile, Joshua Citarella, Liang Luscombe, Loren Adams, Masato Takasaka, Matthew Griffin & Heath Franco and Mochu.

Performances, talks and workshops by Catherine Ryan, Chloë Sobek, Darcy Wedd, Holly Childs, Jennifer Walshe, Joel Sherwood Spring, Machine Listening, McKenzie Wark, Panda Wong, Roslyn Orlando, Tomomi Adachi and more.

Curated by Joel Stern and Sean Dockray.

Amy Stuart, AMS 2024, 松本 2024, MM 2024 and AMS 2024 (from top left to bottom right), in This Hideous Replica, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Installation view. Photo by Christian Capurro.


Amy Stuart, AMS, 2024, 松本, 2024, MM, 2024 and AMS, 2024 (from top left to bottom right), in This Hideous Replica, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Debris Facility Pty Ltd, PlasticCorpUs, 2024 (left). Installation view.  Photo by Christian Capurro.


 This Hideous Replica, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Installation view. Photo by Christian Capurro.


 This Hideous Replica, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Installation view. Photo by Christian Capurro.


Amy Stuart, AMS, 2024, 松本, 2024, MM, 2024 and AMS, 2024 (from top left to bottom right), in This Hideous Replica, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Debris Facility Pty Ltd, PlasticCorpUs, 2024 (right). Installation view.  Photo by Amy Stuart.


Amy Stuart, MM, 2024. Photo by Amy Stuart.


Amy Stuart, 松本, 2024, MM, 2024 and AMS, 2024. Photo by Amy Stuart.