Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. It’s an interesting paradox, don’t you think? A mirror that can both reflect and deflect. Or perhaps it’s just something to look at and smile.
Created on site at Moke Valley and exhibited at Gow Langsford gallery, How to Disappear, sees artist Steve Carr lean deeper into his enduring role as the comic outsider, part magician, part sad clown, pursuing vanishing acts that never quite succeed.
Drawing on a legacy of physical comedy from Chaplin to Three Amigos, Carr’s work embraces failure as a kind of truth. His silent protagonists, dressed in dad jeans and awkward disguises, aren’t heroes or alphas. They fumble, hide, and try again. Beneath the humour lies something more tender: a longing for transformation, transcendence, or simply a moment of reprieve from being seen.