Send-Off: La Perouse
May 4, 2024 - July 28, 2024
La Perouse Museum
Continuing the travel of Send-Off to new locations, this version also reflects on the ruinous vestiges of French imperialism in the La Perouse area through the hollow plaster replicas of Louis XVI and Lapérouse; with the namesake of the latter embedded in the Museum's name. The waxen copies of these busts conjure a legacy of mythmaking.
Daniel Press, Send-Off: La Perouse install shot, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint and artefacts from La Perouse Museum collection. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Lapérouse bust, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint. Edition of 10. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Send-Off: La Perouse install shot, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint and artefacts from La Perouse Museum collection. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Louis XVI busts, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint. Edition of 10. Photography by Lisa Ho.
Daniel Press, Louis XVI busts, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint. Edition of 10. Photography by Lisa Ho.
Daniel Press, Send-Off: La Perouse install shot, 2024. Silicone molds. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Phantoms in Perth: Qonce, South Africa, 2023. Wax. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Lapérouse bust, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint. Edition of 10. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Send-Off: La Perouse install shot, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Send-Off: La Perouse install shot, 2024. Wax mixed with oil paint and artefacts from La Perouse Museum collection. Photography by Richard Trang.
Daniel Press, Haunted Hobart: Bengaluru, India, 2023. Wax mixed with oil paint. Photography by Richard Trang.
“But Haunted Hobart is not a mere imitation of King Edward VII in wax; it is more expressionistic. The jagged, multicoloured bust looks more like its title—it is almost as if Daniel sculpted the ghost of King Edward VII”.
— Praveen Sudevan in The Hindu (Bengaluru), September 4, 2024, pg. 8.
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