Salazar Quas
Portfolio of works - Installation : Drawing : Object Art : studio practice
Project: SCALES
Work: Acetate sheets, digital prints, 3M sprayglue & paper.
Location: VCA, Melbourne AUS
Date: 2013

Details: These acetate-based ‘dragon scales’ are meticulously made én masse; of multiple layers of digitally printed matter, spray-glued together then sliced and collaged in a number of different constellations. Each scale retains a combination of multi-lingual texts (Peter Weibel notes see link), and colour grading images made of macro-lens photographs of surfaces sourced from the immediate studio walls, doors and paint-splatter floors; residue from previous artist’s work. Effectively combining historical mediatheory notations with the built environment, the scales of the dragon are said to enable its chamelleon-like powers to merge, absorb and re-purpose its surrounding ecology. 

A statement on the hierarchies of institution on the assumption of greater intellectual accolades equating to rights of passage - S.Quas


Composed of 6 to 8 different traditional beasts (inc. the lizard, the alligator and the rooster) the search for this animal-hybrid’s contextual ‘identity’ within the academic institution becomes the investigation of this project.

__This work was exhibited in group exhibition First Quarter at VCA Artspace and in the Proud exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, 2013.

Scales on Plinth, 2013 (Exhibition view) ‘Re-Group’ group show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.





Scales Palimpsest, 2013 (Installation view)
VCA Student gallery, UniMelb









Scales Lab, 2013 MCA Studio, VCA, Melbourne.


Members Dismembered, 2013 (Studio installation)



© Salazar Quas Kogler