London 2016-2017 AD Collage

This composition is a visual commentary on how historical events are interwoven with multiple layers of contemporary experience in a metropolis. It is a bleak portrait of a city that seems to be falling, the methodical unravelling of the fabric of our current moment in time as a declining culture: terror attacks, popular culture and its iconography, myths of nationhood, western values and humanist legacy eroding, the apotheosis of individualism and its narcissistic effects, the fragmentation of social and personal experience. Photographic material from the destruction of London during WWII provides the backdrop for the elevation of real events and fragments of experience, whose visual traces are extracted from newspapers and magazines, into the symbolic. Visual fragments from works of art, photographs of real people involved in mediated utopias, iconic buildings and the corrupted ideologies that sustain them standing, are used to create a symbolic mirror of our current experience in space and time. Compositional principles and aesthetic values are respected but subdued in order to minimise the danger of drowning the message in a cornucopia of colours and forms which merely please the eye and turn the macabre into an entertaining spectacle. Far from a surrealist dystopian nightmare, this is a harsh reality that dares audiences to face it without protective glasses.

Collage:Photo on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.6 W x 17.7 H x 0.8 D in

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