Like a pig in shit

Richard Sides

Like a pig in shit, 2019Sign in to view price
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hd video, 18:50 minCarlos/Ishikawa
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The striking black-and-white image depicts a human skull shrouded in ethereal, wispy smoke. The stark contrast between the stark, bony features of the skull and the soft, billowing smoke creates a haunting, otherworldly effect. The overall composition is striking and visually captivating, with the skull emerging from the smoky haze. The artistic style and technique employed suggest a focus on mortality, the fragility of life, and the transient nature of existence. This piece may reflect the artist's contemplation of the human condition and the universal human experience of death. ...

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Artist
Richard Sides
B.1985, British

Richard Sides is a multidisciplinary artist who employs, remediates and reappropriates the plethora of low-value, mundane and sometimes obsolete objects at his disposal to create works in moving image, sculpture, text and sound. His works explore contemporary mass media and the onus placed on subjects to shed their agency in the face of biopower and under the conditions of capitalism. Sides considers his works time-based collages, imagined in the three-dimensionality and immersivity of the exhibition space. In Sides’ landmark exhibition, ‘the omega point just ate his brains…’ (2013), kettles, water bottles and a jumble of extension leads - perhaps the detritus of neoliberalism - are littered throughout the gallery space, providing the backdrop for his moving image works. These are displayed on sputtering projectors seemingly, and symbolically, on the precipice of malfunction and collapse. Sides often lets cacophonies of ambient sound permeate throughout the gallery – for example Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata combines with music from French organist Olivier Messiaen in ‘the omega...’ – something he has consistently investigated alongside his contemporary, Haroon Mirza, in an ongoing project called ‘Sound Spill’. ...

Richard Sides: Artworks
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Infinite War
Like a pig in shit
Richard Sides
Like a pig in shit, 2019
Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
Carlos/Ishikawa
London

Founded in 2011, Carlos/Ishikawa’s program is dedicated to considered and ambitious exhibitions that offer diverse artists’ perspectives on structural, socio-cultural, and political questions. The program focuses on international artists with often wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and experimental practices. There is an interest within the program of challenging the aesthetic conventions of conceptual art, and a focus on art that is able to operate on an affective, emotional level as well as a rigorous intellectual one. The gallery has offered many artists their first solo show, many of whom have gone on to receive recognition internationally. ...

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