"Homo sapiens are mostly about pattern recognition, both a gift and a trap"
(William Gibson)
New work | January 2012
The grey-everyday seduces through conformity and standardization. Our malleability through habit, ritual and tradition confirms that we are simply pattern processing machines, born out of pattern and destined to live out our lives as pattern. Familiarity and pattern give meaning to life, cushioning our inherent time-dependency and allowing us to deal with the "urgency of life". We expect repeatability and consume consistency. Confirmation through repeatability qualifies our endeavours - pattern is control and safety; it is titanic, ubiquitous and blind. Pattern gives continuity without consideration - it simply is.
The work originates from an interest in repetition, the reiteration of the same and its relationship to our temporality. We habitually repeat, and are involved in many forms of ritual that suggest a motivation intrinsically bound to repetition, and yet ‘there is something about the nature of repetition to unmake the very identity it seeks to confirm’. If repetition is played out too long it becomes a narrative within itself, operating somewhere between boredom and engagement.
Previous:
Mostyn Oriel Open
‘Afternoon Tea’, WW Gallery at the 54th Venice Biennale
(Part of the 'UK at the Venice Biennale' programme and the wider Biennale collateral exhibitions, 54th Venice Biennale, 30 May – 12 June, Venice, Italy).
London Art Fair, 2011
Updated: January 2012
Image: Beware of the Gods (work in progress, sand cast lead)
(William Gibson)
New work | January 2012
The grey-everyday seduces through conformity and standardization. Our malleability through habit, ritual and tradition confirms that we are simply pattern processing machines, born out of pattern and destined to live out our lives as pattern. Familiarity and pattern give meaning to life, cushioning our inherent time-dependency and allowing us to deal with the "urgency of life". We expect repeatability and consume consistency. Confirmation through repeatability qualifies our endeavours - pattern is control and safety; it is titanic, ubiquitous and blind. Pattern gives continuity without consideration - it simply is.
The work originates from an interest in repetition, the reiteration of the same and its relationship to our temporality. We habitually repeat, and are involved in many forms of ritual that suggest a motivation intrinsically bound to repetition, and yet ‘there is something about the nature of repetition to unmake the very identity it seeks to confirm’. If repetition is played out too long it becomes a narrative within itself, operating somewhere between boredom and engagement.
Previous:
Mostyn Oriel Open
‘Afternoon Tea’, WW Gallery at the 54th Venice Biennale
(Part of the 'UK at the Venice Biennale' programme and the wider Biennale collateral exhibitions, 54th Venice Biennale, 30 May – 12 June, Venice, Italy).
London Art Fair, 2011
Updated: January 2012
Image: Beware of the Gods (work in progress, sand cast lead)
