Using photographic media to explore visual perception, my art practice is concerned with providing a nuanced reading of the everyday urban realm. My work focuses on revealing hidden or unnoticed aspects of the urban environment, which are often obscured by the fast pace of the city. The flux and flow of the city rhythms produce a layered experience of temporal and spatial perception, creating an urban montage in which memory, imagination and the material world combine. My images attempt to depict this montage through a manipulation of light and colour, which defamiliarises the everyday urban landscape. The distortion and disorientation that results seeks to entice the viewer to reconsider his/her relationship to the time and space of the city.
I am interested in disrupting the boundary between legibility and illegibility, between figure and ground, and between subject and object, in order to interrogate the process of perception. Furthermore, my work seeks to challenge the perception of the photographic medium, often pushing photographic technology beyond its comfort zone to produce images that do not look like ‘photographs’, blurring the boundaries between painting, moving image and still photography.
I am interested in disrupting the boundary between legibility and illegibility, between figure and ground, and between subject and object, in order to interrogate the process of perception. Furthermore, my work seeks to challenge the perception of the photographic medium, often pushing photographic technology beyond its comfort zone to produce images that do not look like ‘photographs’, blurring the boundaries between painting, moving image and still photography.
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