Exhibition | Toro, Jenna Packer

About the event

Jenna Packer’s work looks to the various structures that shape the lives of people – social, political, religious and economic – and the tension that occurs within or between them.

In this exhibition she looks back at over a decade of utilising the bull as a symbol, one commonly associated with free market economics: the logos of financial companies, the bull statue at Wall Street, or the term ‘bull market’.

Packer’s work incorporates this symbol as a literal structure; as monoliths built by speculative future societies, or as totems encountered in an imagined past. It alludes to the power that symbols also have in shaping societies, and how they accrue meaning across time and context.

Image: Jenna Packer, Furnace, 2017, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.