I explore the alienated sense of modern identity portrayed through so-called new social networks. My work questions the subjectivity and sensibilities that emerge from such enviroments by injecting irony or absurdity into the fabric of urban experience.
My practice deals with short-circuiting the interfaces of modern communication or subverting (or inverting) the roles of human and machine in order to open new spaces of engagement and critique. In Drawing studies 1, Ric uses the Waterdrop perspective to structure everything drawn from the vantage point of the drawing itself: they are drawings of my workspace (laptop, paper, clutter, etc.) which are for the drawing itself to look at. The work in progress Types is a fake or in other words automated documentation of a series of stencil graffiti of typical typefaces (for example ‘Times New Roman’ written in Times New Roman) which question the importance and ethics of style, not only in graffiti but in culture at large - as well as the before and afterlife of an artwork or urban intervention.
My work addresses a collective anxiety of self-expression which has been cultivated through new forms of dissemination (mobile communications, reality shows, celebrity culture, social networking, etc). I investigate a sense of overwhelming connectivity caused by a sort of 'peer pressure' and the exploitation of a desire to participate in these networks in order to share every mundane thought with the world. Inspiration, ironically, comes from trying to identify a space of engagement inside the dilemma of not knowing what to say or not knowing where to go. I try to question and subvert the effect and necessity of ‘real-time’ in new technologies by developing a sense of displacement and alienation in an experience that is at first familiar to the spectator. For example, Avolition is about the enactment of automated self-consciousness. It is a counselling session in which the spectator is asked to take on an impossible role outside the relationship of patient and analyst (or human and machine): the displaced spectator witnesses a very strange conversation between two computers as they try to speak about their ‘problems’ to each other.
My form of circular thinking reflects my desire to challenge the habitual dialogue that society has developed with technologies.
I've exhibited in the United Kingdom, Serbia and Portugal.
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