Giselle Peters: Milk & Oil

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Giselle Peters, "Milk & Oil," 2018

Artist Reception and Talk: April 27, 2019 2-4pm

Robin Lambert & Brenda Malkinson will be in attendance

Milk & Oil is a collection of figurative sculpture that addresses the human condition through the lens of childhood. A presentation of contemporary issues using images of children and toys, it highlights the childish behaviour of the adult world and speculates about the long-term effects of our enterprises, particularly among these most vulnerable members of our society and on the future of our species. Focusing primarily on war, nationalism, consumerism, propaganda and the food industry, it considers key players involved and motivating mechanisms of money and power in a markedly facetious tone. 

This exhibition is, for Giselle, a declaration of precisely what repels me about contemporary culture, in which she sees the same theatrics that she observed in childhood, magnified with guns, money and power. Despite her admitted disinterest in politics and current affairs, her curiosity of human behaviour compels her to observe the spectacle and respond. There is a grotesque overtone to the show underlining the insidiousness that she thinks this choice of behaviour heralds in adults. Unlike with children, there exists the capacity to understand the ramifications of their actions, which are potentially devastating on a global political scale.