Petra Cortright | Memo Review
Petra Cortright, CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER cool win 98 themes +country +home +magazine, 2021, digital painting on anodised aluminium, 74.30 x 121.92cm, 1301SW. Image courtesy of the artist and 1301SW, Melbourne.
By Gemma Topliss
American Apparel tennis skirts, Lana Del Rey, washed-out digital images à la Terry Richardson, and blogging. The aesthetic markers of the first generation to grow up online are having a renaissance. As younger millennials and older zoomers lean in further to their puer aeternus tendencies and relive their teenage years, the web is awash with nostalgia for the 2010s. In 2006, around the same era, the term “post-internet” was coined by artist Maria Olsson. Post-internet described the internet slipping away from its status as a futuristic and foreign invention, instead becoming both a ubiquitous banality and ever-present spectral force.