PARADOX OF CONTROL

Maddie Hepner

5 - 21 September 2025, Platform
Exhibition opening: 6pm Thursday 4 September 2025

This project explores Hepner’s personal experience of trichotillomania (a disorder characterised by compulsive hair pulling) and draws parallels between the disorder and modern anxieties surrounding rapidly evolving emergent technologies, digital fatigue, and personal health in the digital age.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an essay by Gabrielle Hall-Lomax, artist and Curator, photo access.

The works in this exhibition were created with support from ACT Government Arts Activities Funding.

Image: Maddie Hepner Haptic #4, 2025, silver gelatin print, 30.5 x 40.6cm