'Artist After Artists' is composed digitally by the artist using low-resolution images of well-known classical art paintings*, acquired randomly via the Google search engine. This open-endlessness highlights the tensions between inner and outer landscapes and truth and possession, which shaped the artist’s process and inspiration in terms of selecting images from open-access digital media while navigating her perspective. Ironically, the work continues to capture this constant state of becoming in a way that defies stable interpretations and comparisons but creates a space for viewers to develop their perspectives. This piece began as a research entry for the Irish Biennial… Although the artist missed the deadline, having become so engrossed in the process of collating seemingly disparate images of Ireland’s rich history into a unified collage, the piece evolved regardless. State Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cyprus. Sala degli Archi of the New Fortress, Livorno, Italy Source of original images: Google chrome imagesġst prize in Digital Art in The International Prize of Contemporary Art – LYNX 2016 2nd Edition, in Trieste, Italy. Everything is a unique combination of everything an important reminder during these turbulent times of shifting nations and mass migration. Identity and reality are neither maintained nor achieved through a single intrinsic or extrinsic definition, as our cellular transcript is diachronic, not static. Furthermore, no matter what our origins, our human DNA is constantly evolving due to environmental, technological, cultural, political, economic, emotional and personal circumstances. There is no fixed human nature/reality like it or not we are all cross-breeds and our minds and actions reflect personal realities. A defining story within a single word or picture, is thus rendered an impossible and unfeasible undertaking. As Carl Yung said: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Multiverses are thus streams of malleable energy flow, influenced by all such interactions, bound in this case by the cognitive and emotional interaction between creator and observer. The significance of this essence and landscape lies in its narrativization of what we can call ‘true reality: an ongoing collection of individual realities that interact and shape each other. The resulting representations are in as such cultural products that unify anxieties surrounding postmodern concepts of identity in a bid to isolate the essence of a seemingly simpler story that we belong to no one and everyone simultaneously within a liminal multiverse. This visual praxis celebrates the complex and fruitful dynamism of multiverses as a continuation of ideas that resonate across time, whilst offering an insight into how the fabric of identity is constructed as a meta-narrative of the schism between belonging and alienation, attachment and detachment. The works compress this organic oeuvre by focussing on its cellular arrangement depicted through a collage of fragments taken from images that have dominated a community of thought during various epochs throughout history. Taking this intellectual provocation as a point of departure, each piece articulates the idea that cultural, social and political anthropology exists and develops within evolutionary multiverses throughout history. In the series entitled ‘Multiverse,” I have sought to explore the concept of the universe as an expanse comprised of multiverses, in which all lived activity and experience converge in a way that defies the laws of time and space. As the following overview makes clear, the journey of residual effects is ongoing and evolutionary gaining momentum through the provocation of unchartered frontiers. This meta-narrative, which ripples throughout these captivating projects, has come about by exploring these synergies within different mediums over time. These evolutionary overlaps, which articulate the multifaceted nature of the human condition and our socio-cultural relations, have enthralled me to the point of deep fascination generating a will to construct works that act as grounds for hope and optimism. The very nature of daily global and biopolitical narratives, which form the fabric of our consciousness is in a sense revisitation of ‘past’ wounds and glories set to contemporary melodies/cacophonies. Inspiration comes in many forms and indeed through various sources none of which, as I am consistently reminded through my work, are entirely synchronic nor operate within a vacuum.
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