Exhibition Catalogue | Jedda-Daisy Culley 'Download Hats'

Jerico Contemporary is delighted to present 'Download Hats' with Australian artist Jedda-Daisy Culley. The exhibition opens on Friday 1st of July and continues until Saturday 23rd of July 2022. 'Download Hats' is a dramatic expression in psychoactive portraiture exploring the metaphysical nature of the almighty mother as a monster-like ghost exploding outside her physical form.

These portraits seek to make seen the spirited often see-through aspects of a woman’s power with rapid witch like intuition. Alongside these brave cuddling forms are on-lookers, often referred to as ‘him’ or ‘cowboy’, they’re frozen with fear, haunted with ingenuine protection and fake smiles. Faces that plague her mind, smiling demons she thinks, creepily disillusioned with empty promises, a limp hand frightens her. She sees them in floods of misguided and conflicting information raining down their faces, hodgepodging their clarity and identity in a veil of data. They’re lined up watching her, torn apart, she’s exposing herself under their gaze. Trust is the ultimate obscurer. ‘Download Hats’ contributes to a conversation deconstructing the fails of disillusioned masculine authority and rewrites the mother archetype with bold intimacy.