Fiona Watson, local to Blue Mountains and exhibiting artist in the inaugural Fake gALLerY show Paris 2023, invite you to participate in the International Dada Tiny Art Show, that is scheduled to take place from 11th - to 23rd April 2026 in the Blue Mountains.
ABOUT
This project, and the creation of The Fake gALLerY is the brainchild of Allison Beda, the Experimental humourist filmmaker, Conceptual Sculptor, and Dada Gallerist who loves joyful guerilla art interventions turning difficult life experiences into comedic works of art and working with what one has. It is a project that grew out of an artist in residency programme in France 2023. Allison observed whilst sitting in the modernist Parisienne cafe Beaubourg, small structural cavities in the brutalist concrete wall . These tiny spaces inspired Beda to a cheeky artist intervention in this public space.
Allison’s idea to create a tiny show of travelling artworks including sculptures smaller that 1.5"x1.5" and pictures/paintings smaller than 3"x3", could indeed be showcased in many and varied places. The entire exhibition is small enough to fit in a carry-on suitcase, referenceing the great Dada artist March Duchamp’s artwork La Boîteen- Valise' [Box in a Suitcase]
Allison invited artists from the international artist residency in Orqueuveaux to make miniature art to inhabit the brutalist cavities of the cafe in a fleeting intervention. The artists who have been included in this exhibition are not miniaturists, and thus for them the issue of scale – of smallness and the miniature is not only a guideline, but a subject in itself and a challenge to the constraints. An idea born in a Parisienne cafe blossomed into a worldwide tour engaging international artists with unconventional galleries and spaces, bringing people and ideas together all over the world.