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Steve Bishop

Deliquescing, 2018

lion’s mane mycelium (hericium erinaceus) on supplemented saw-dust blocks, shelving, polyethylene-enclosed environment, humidity and temperature controllers, ultrasonic humidifiers, ventilation fans and ducting, water tanks, pvc crash doors, pvc flooring, fridges, lighting and lighting gels; sd video on internally conformal-coated monitor (1min 39sec, 480p, 4:3, color)
About Steve Bishop
Steve Bishop works with fabricated and found materials and objects to articulate the poignancy and humour in sentimentality. His installations, such as little statues, a bowl of milk and cereal, an unmade bed, a half-eaten cake, or a screenshot of a Facebook chat, point to both the importance and futility of time and of a human life. Experiencing his installations produces an eerie feeling of entering into domestic settings but finding their inhabitants missing. Bishop’s video works feature touching amateur and found footage, like karaoke performances and cover songs. His works, to put it in the artist’s words, are “containers for something”, that “something” being evermore personal. Thus, the artist’s objectively everyday representations carry a subjective substance of serenity of human existence and cosiness of a regular life.

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