New books from Bri Lee and Liam Pieper reach into the frictions and follies of the art industry. But are they fact or fantasy?
Liam Pieper’s Appreciation and Bri Lee’s The Work paint recognisable portraits of the art industry and its obsession with capital.Liam Pieper’s Appreciation and Bri Lee’s The Work paint recognisable portraits of the art industry and its obsession with capital.
It’s this underside, riddled with friction and contradiction, which has caught the eye of two Australian authors with new books out this month: Bri Lee’sThe protagonist of Lee’s first novel is Lally, a young gallerist in New York navigating the death of one of her artists – a financial boon for her – and the public censure of another, who is facing allegations of sexual assault.
In the endnote of his book, Pieper makes an admission: “This book isn’t actually about art at all.” I tend to disagree. The novel is a portrait of Oli Darling: “a queer artist from the country” whose career is built on his ability to embody the twin positions of “a true-blue Australian and a minority”. This proves to be an alchemical combination.
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