Hundreds of thousands of the popular LEGO building bricks have landed in Adelaide to help SA Museum join a new world premiere exhibition creating a journey through an imagined future.
Announcing the exhibition, SA Museum said RELICS: A New World Rises was set in the year 2530 in a world where LEGO minifigures have risen from the debris to build intricate civilisations in discarded and forgotten objects once inhabited or used by humans.
Acting Director of the South Australian Museum Justine van Mourik said she expects RELICS to be a big hit with museum visitors.
“No matter your age, there’s something for everyone to marvel at in these clever worlds,” Ms van Mourik said.
“Kids will love the number of minifigures and all the little hidden LEGO details in each of the relics, while the young at heart and anyone who’s ever owned a LEGO set or a LEGO minifig will appreciate the creativity, engineering and masterful design used to turn everyday items into one-of-a-kind artistic creations of curious worlds with strange stories to tell,” she said.
Co-creator Jackson Harvey said the RELICS exhibition was two years in the making and born out of a desire to create something that pushed the bounds of their imagination using their love of LEGO and storytelling abilities.
“The minifigures are the plastic puppets of our stories, and we’ve had so much fun constructing hundreds of narratives with them,” Mr Harvey said.
“We hope people can find these stories and create some of their own,” he said.
Co-creator Alex Towler described the relics, built over many months with his high school best friend, as really weird and wonderful.
“This is a completely new creative endeavour for us, and we have been able to really give it everything we’ve got to realise its full potential,” Mr Towler said.
“Kids are going to love the relics, but we’ve also created them with adults in mind, with the objects full of nostalgia and the stories we’re telling packed with references only adults will understand,” he said.
The RELICS: A New World Rises exhibition is to open Sunday, 23 July, with tickets available on the Humanitix website at this PS News link.
