Morag Keil
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This contemporary artwork depicts a laptop computer resting on a surface. The painting showcases a muted color palette of grays, blues, and blacks, creating a serene and minimalist atmosphere. The laptop's keyboard and screen are rendered in a realistic manner, emphasizing the device's functionality. The background features a patterned texture that adds visual interest and depth to the composition. The artist's style appears to be a blend of realism and abstraction, capturing the essence of a modern technological object in a thoughtful and contemplative manner. This piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of the role of technology in our daily lives and its integration within our physical surroundings. ...
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Morag Keil
1985 , BritishMorag Keil’s practice is ouroboric: self-referring, self-erasing, self-consuming, regurgitating. Keil’s installations have the bald efficiency of something bargain-bucket but workable. This amateurish construction — of clunky paper-mâché houses downtrodden with office heels, of a low-fi camera’s glitchy rove over motorbikes — actualises her reflection of contemporaneity’s squashing and conditioning of subjectivity, as well as the interlocking of production and pleasure. Beneath the watermark of professionalism and propriety lies a cesspit of personal contradictions and anxiety-trimmed mediations. Through a wide variety of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video, as well as collaborative projects with artists such as Georgie Nettell, Keil’s work often relieve the aestheticising cliché of the post-financial crash and millennial precarity. In her gallery exhibition, Here We Go Again, the artist simulated in three dimensions an out of date video game mocking home automation: doors with peepholes open up to doors, walls painted in soft pink and green screen, and televisions playing a lush forest CGI animation from a BBC One ident, which then cut to a blue circle that wobbled as a voice-over asked in the half-droning tones of Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa. Behind Keil’s work is the demand to know why we live like this and the impulse to tear it all down; but, until that happens, we wander. ...
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Project Native Informant
LondonContemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.