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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

bunny & clam

Emmica Lore


19 June 2025–13 July 2025

Emmica Lore’s sculptures use kitsch and absurdism to poke fun at systems that govern behaviour and taste. bunny & clam explores how status is a moving target – historical, social, and absurd. We see items whose meanings have slipped over time from high-to-low, low-to-high, and sometimes back again. Through hand-pinned sequins and foil-covered surfaces, Emmica also elevates materials often associated with disposability and craft. bunny & clam sits in a deliberately gaudy space, somewhere between sincerity and irony. Imitation becomes a form of disobedience, disrupting the authority of ‘good taste’.

 

 

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  • Infatuated with colour and craft, Emmica Lore creates from a place somewhere between sincerity and irony. She is based in Naarm/Melbourne, living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Emmica’s practice plays with ideas of disobedience, status and containment. Her sculptures use kitsch and absurdism to poke fun at systems that govern behaviour and taste. Emmica’s work looks at the arbitrary nature of status and the ways society assigns (and then reassigns) value to objects, behaviours and symbols. She’s also super into shiny things.