If you have ever come across Alex Lekias in person, you will know what we mean when we say that she is the image of a life styled by a flat-out refusal to grow up. Seeing her in person is like coming across a Gothic Lolita who never learned of a life beyond the dress-up basket. But whilst her unique style is a developmental psychologist’s wet dream, it’s also her creative practice’s best asset.
In keeping with her pre-occupation with pre-pubescence, Lekias follows up her sellout 2010 exhibition Lifelong Baby Teeth (at Sydney’s Friends Of Leon Gallery), with a similarly psychedelic exploration of the archetypal teenager and those awkward rites of passage some call growing up. Luckily for us, her pubescent memories include spewing up rainbows instead of stomach bile and hyper-colourful goon bags churning out cute Koala bears rather than acrid ‘fresh dry-white’. If only we could all be so optimistic!
(Images courtesy of Linton & Kay Contemporary)
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