The artist wears the trousers

Abstract

"Campbell Patterson's first Frances Hodgkins Fellowship exhibition is an abstracted reflection on the urge to escape a bleak decade [...] Patterson commissioned a tailor to create four pairs of tracksuit pants scaled up to double their normal size. He has been sleeping in the pants since shifting to Dunedin. The pants have also been worn for video performances of Patterson entering and exiting buildings. The DPAG exhibition is two adjacent spaces; a room screening loops of the video performances and a nearby wall where the pants (subtly visually and olfactorily altered by wearing) are displayed as sculptural works."