BEATRICE TUCKER & REMI PRICA

Size Matters

Tucker and Prica are artists who explore activism and political struggle as both the subject and method of their work. They have stood side by side on picket lines and at protests in the street, and now their artwork is being shown together for the first time. Both artists have independently produced to-scale missiles, emphasising the sheer size of the weapons at the heart of war and imperialism. These missiles and accompanying posters, zines and textiles highlight the ties that local and national institutions have to weapons manufacturers and genocide profiteers. However, alongside this harsh reality, the artists ask the viewer to reject despair and lean into hope. Woven through this exhibition are histories of mass movements, engaging with the successes and lessons from past struggles. It discusses the size and methods of the movements we must learn from, if we are to succeed in ending wars and the systems that produce them. The show brings forward these urgent questions of today with playful satire and vibrant, maximalist, referential, camp aesthetics.

Image: Beatrice Tucker, Anti-AUKUS Caucus, 2023. Foreground: 42 paper stuffed props made of risograph prints on paper hung to form life sized replica of Trident Sea to Air missile (7m). Background, A2 various posters, screenprint on paper. Installation view. Photographed by Jack Black, courtesy of the artist.