Image above: Eva Alisic, A Furr & Fethaz Real Estate Agency; Imaginary Animal Real EstateWhen Only the Best Will Do. 2023.

Image below: Eva Alisic, A Furr & Fethaz Real Estate Agency; Imaginary Animal Real Estate – Easy Low Maintenance Escape. 2023.

Imaginary Animal Real Estate

A Furr & Fethaz Real Estate project by Eva Alisic was aimed to make you both laugh and reflect.

The sublime and stunning property offerings were intended to make the audience think about inner-city biodiversity, housing affordability and land rights, within the broader context of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

What role can artists play in raising ambitions as well as proposing new ideas and concepts to help local communities everywhere achieve greater social and ecological sustainability?

For further background and science underpinning this unique project, click here

Artist
Eva Alisic.

Exhibition Details
Where: CLIMARTE Gallery, 120 Bridge Rd, Richmond
When: 6 January – 4 February 2023

Public Events
Imaginary Animal Real Estate AUCTION! – 4 February 2023, 4 – 6pm.

An auction of prime real estate was led by an award-winning auctioneer from Furr & Fethaz, artist and researcher Eva Alisic. Extravagant nest hats and furry friends were all encouraged to attend, with post-auction drinks and nibbles offered to the auction winners. For more information about this event please click here.

 

Artist Statement
Eva Alisic’s art practice grows out of her academic practice at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (University of Melbourne). In collaboration with people with lived experience, policy makers and a range of practitioners, Eva studies how young people and families deal with trauma and disadvantage. Her sculptural, digital and performance works build on these findings and the experience of doing research in general, as well as a broader interest in climate and social justice. From 2016 to 2019 Eva was involved in an international project on how researchers can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Her works often incorporate text and found objects, in this case the ‘found texts’ of real estate advertisements.