Join us at Loupe Creative Space for the opening of our upcoming exhibition, ‘Local Guide’ by @grantxwilkes

Exhibition Opening: 07.11.25 at 6pm
📍 1/37 Ethel Street, Yeerongpilly
Exhibition runs 7–16 November

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Both playful and disquieting, Local Guide questions the reliability of online knowledge in an age of surveillance capitalism, where data is mined, images are automated, and trust is commodified. Through a series of fabricated suburban landmarks entered into Google Maps, Grant x Wilkes mischievously assumes the role of everyday users who shape our digital landscapes, exposing the fragility of the mapped world and the quiet seduction of believing what we see online. We freely exchange our virtual privacy for the conveniences we consume; services offered up by hungry platforms eager for more content to feed machine learning and train artificial intelligence systems.

Grant x Wilkes translates the immaterial traces of the online world into physical form, drawing on a combination of digital photography, painting, 3D photogrammetry, and experimental analogue photographic processes. Each work probes the aesthetics of truth and the seduction of the photographic image. Local Guide is an irreverent game of trickery played against the algorithms that harvest our personal data and demand our constant undivided attention.