large format inkjet print on semi gloss photographic paper, mount board with multi aperture windowsChisenhale Gallery
Description
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This collage-style artwork features a grid of diverse photographic images, showcasing a range of subjects and visual styles. The composition creates a dynamic interplay of colors, textures, and forms, inviting the viewer to explore the varied visual elements. The subject matter spans from natural landscapes and abstract patterns to human faces and fantastical imagery, suggesting a thematic exploration of the natural and the surreal. The artist's eclectic approach blends photographic techniques, evoking a sense of curiosity and wonder about the world around us. ...
In his practice, Ed Fornieles investigates the impact the virtual world has on physical reality, and vice versa. By blurring the distinctions between the online and the offline, his installations, performances and video works mirror social networks and often use them as artistic tools. His practice involves creating elaborate social scenarios which depict the stark difference between people’s real-life personalities and their online personae. For instance, his 2011 project titled Dorm Daze involved creating characters, inspired by American college students, on Facebook which then interacted with each other for three months, thereby forming connections and subjective experiences. The artist’s live performances similarly orchestrate social settings, often placed within the young person’s coming of age context, to which the audience is invited to actively participate and role-play. By drawing on social media interactions and placing them into the real world, Fornieles creates uncanny observations on people, relationships and the condition of the twenty-first century. ...
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