Our relationship with the world is increasingly mediated by algorithms, choosing our content, profiling our behaviour, interfering with our perception of reality.

Our online behaviour is meticulously monitored and analysed by unseen computational forces. A significant proportion of our activity relates to pornography, estimates suggest that up to 30% of internet traffic is pornography related, yet this activity remains outside of the realms of polite discourse.

These works consider how the machines interpret our seeming obsession with the sexual activities of strangers.

The White Room

Beautiful (Inside)

Exegis

She Took The Fucking Kids, Dave

Is This What You Wanted?

All At Sea

Porcelain

A series of portraits based around the Golden Mean. The subject has been reduced to the bare minimum required for recognition (the eyes), with the focus of the pupil at the exact intersection of the golden mean on the X and Y axes.

Golden Mean

The language of business is littered with allusions to violence. The pursuit of the killer product, crushing the competition, dominating the market. Here we see what happens when the veneer of civility is transgressed and matters of business are settled man to man.

Corporate Fight Club

Great apes are our closest biological relatives – for example, we share 99.5% of our DNA with chimps.

Our fellow primates have large brains which support sophisticated social hierarchies, distinct personalities and highly complex behaviour. Yet, as fellow primates, we have been pretty shitty to them. We destroy their habitat and wage war in the very places they live.

As our closest relatives, they’re pretty annoyed. This series of paintings tries to capture that sense of disappointment.


Pissed off Primates

Nietzsche and the horse II (2021)

Corporate Fight Club: Value at Risk

Corporate Fight Club: Dead Cat Bounce

Corporate Fight Club: Quantitative Easing

Schrödinger and the cat

Schopenhauer and Atman

John

Corporate Fight Club: Keynsian Economics

Immanuel

Ada Lovelace [after Chalon et al]

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Eric Drass's Art Collections