At first glance there is something pleasantly and unapologetically naive about Zac Slams’ exhibition entitled CRIME AND PUNISHEDMENT at Untitled Contemporary Art’s Mainspace. The handling of the collages makes evident a kind of haphazard scrounging of materials, rapidly assembled with glue stains and bit of scotch tape peeking their way out from behind faces of porn-stars, magazine models and serial killers. Stuffed into plastic bags or cheap frames and hung at un-precise angles, askew like posters in a teenager’s bedroom, this work seems far from refined. There is no attempt at polish, precision or presentation. It is utterly indigestible.
BLOOD SPLATTERS AND FLYING DICKS: THE ODDLY SENSITIVE AND SUBTLE NATURE OF ZAC SLAMS
Image courtesy of The Bows (formerly Untitled Art Society)