About

The words for the title were found scrawled across a red planter, and have since been erased. The ephemeral message, discovered in an open urban space, becomes both a memory and a token of revival; refined and re-contextualised when adopted into the Kabinett.

Dobree is interested in the over saturation and displacement of language. Just like the urban realm, language pre-exists us. Meanwhile, we must also find a way of navigating its complex and continuously changing topography.

Words change, meanings change, and so do streets, neighbourhoods, and cities as the people who inhabit them and speak them go on to move, grow, and evolve.

The opening of the exhibition will commence at a nearby bus stop, where visitors will board the bus together in order to observe the Kabinett from the perspective of an integrated commuter. By first viewing the work from a moving vehicle, the audience is able to play out the multitude of postures and prose that comprise the eclectic and sometimes frenetic metropolitan experience.