INSTALLATION WITH BANANAS
In this body of work I consider everyday consumption. For some, everyday consumption has become public: the online world is oversaturated with images of daily life without actually depicting anything, distorting reality. Nothing can ever be as it is seen through a camera, because something is always offscreen. I use representational images, zooming in to make the viewer aware that there is something offscreen, and distorting and dissolving the images without crossing over into complete abstraction.
The photocopier is used as a tool of artistic production, and occasionally as an image itself, connecting mass production with a ‘cottage industry’ of domestic book production.
Books and posters, among other objects, are hung on clothes horses. These art works can only be viewed by interacting with them and the clothes horse. The clothes horse suggests the domestic and everyday. The clothes horse is placed into a ‘gallery’ space and, as a result, the encounter with the everyday object, and its consumption, is transformed.