CONQUER IN COMFORT

Bernie Slater

5th April - 17th May 2008 | CCAS Gorman

A Letter to Plain from Fancy

Dear Bernie,

Just a note to say thanks on behalf of Australia and possibly the entire Western world for your show entitled Conquer in Comfort. The likes of Schappelle, Corey, Kochie, Warnie, and yourself stand proudly as representatives of our great age alongside iconic remnants of magazines and the stuff of the holy supermarket. Thanks to you Bernie, we may digest the cultural bran of our day and keep our minds regular as we undertake a cultural renovation blitz.

We take in your images and objects like any others we may see on TV or in magazines, but after the initial wise crack you don’t really give us any answers. We are left wandering around the mall thinking and feeling and that is exactly what you want. You are telling us to put away the facial mist, pull our sporting beanies up from over our eyes and take a long hard look at who and where we are. Hopefully after digesting all that cultural bran we remember to take a change of undies and move safely to the next big game to begin living the dream.

(Julian Laffan, 2008)

Image: Bernie Slater, Not a Winner, 2007