At one end lies the human capacity for collaboration-for building, dismantling, and rebuilding together. At the other, the relentless demands of capitalism, rooted in the pursuit of unending profit. Where Ends Meet explores the tensions between these poles, offering a visual meditation on the space that exists in between.
These works represent a reification of comics art. Fikaris deconstructs comic pages-disassembling graphic sequences, panels, composition, and narrative structure-to reorient his focus toward minimalist gestures. The result is a body of work that dwells in the pleasures of slow process: monochromatic mark-making, careful use of colour, and the quiet rhythm of reduction. Each work becomes a marker of this in-between space-neither wholly resistant nor fully complicit, but an open site for negotiation, experimentation, and pause.
Resisting the logic of labour as commodity, Where Ends Meet challenges the pressures of productivity and transactional value. Instead, the exhibition invites reflection on creative process, mutual transparency, and the potential for genuine collaboration.
The exhibition included a new publication Human Work; with 100 impressions of labour made by 100 friends, curated by the artist.
Where Ends Meet exhibited over two locations of the artists hometown- north side in Collingwood for two weeks and south side in St Kilda for two months.