Artists: Matt Aitken & Mei Swan Lim
Work: Land Sale (2018-19)
Location: Wanneroo and Yanchep, Western Australia
Land Sale looks to the altered landscapes, sweeping sub-divisions, freeway extensions and early-phase industrial sites of Perth’s northern suburbs.
Taking their collective experience and memories of these barren, sanitised and changed landscapes, commonplace in the development of Perth, artists Matt Aitken and Mei Swan Lim investigate these familiar and yet largely invisible spaces. Through a series of conversations, an exhibition and an immersive, sensory walking tour, the artists re-mystify and explore below the surface of these barren, brickie-sand mirages that characterise the freeway extensions from Wanneroo to Yanchep and beyond.
