‘Fever’ is a context responsive text-based video work that explores the limits of our structures and systems of logic, in particular language and colour, and the moments when they break down and create new poetic or visual possibilities. It also explores the transgressive nature of indulgence and excess and its ability to divide and split the subject involved.

The work pairs colloquial antonyms with corresponding pairs of colour opposites and, through a process of transposition, reveals the inherent ambiguity of language, meaning and everyday experiences.  In an attempt to conflate apparently incompatible opposites ‘Fever’ also explores the idea that the superabundance of any force inevitably produces or contains its opposite, similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world.

Claudia Gleave is a Melbourne based artist whose practice spans video, performance, photography and text-based works. Her work questions personal and societal boundaries and constructs, often revealing the nature and limits of human knowledge and structures of logic and often employs the subversive and reflexive potential of a comic and tragic sensibility. She holds Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours First Class) from The Victorian College of the Arts and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows.