Landcuts: " Home Sweet Home " Aerial_3aa Artwork - Limited Edition of 1

From the " Landcuts " series www.landcuts.com - 13 in X 54 in, Archival Pigment Print, - Facemount under Plexi and Diebond - Printed by the artist - Edition of 10 + 2 Art Proof - Certificate of AuthenThe Privatization of Inner Space “Home Sweet Home”, part of Paul Emile Rioux’s Landcuts series investigates identity and place in the modern hypercapitalist urban landscape – a landscape that crosses national boundaries, merging megacities, sprawling suburbs, and surpasses even physical barriers themselves spreading into the digital environment itself, and from which the digital environment spreads back into us. In Rioux’s work we see what at first glance appears to be a modern city, sprawling, grim and polluted. Upon further inspection it seems to transform – perhaps less a contemporary city, but a prophesy of cities to come. If one looks a little longer it changes again into something alien, immaterial and artificial, an uninviting and destabilizing universe of digital constructs. To live in such a world is to be caught between two poles – on the one hand to feel constantly alienated and in search of a home and on the other to convince yourself and others that you have already found it as a necessary element of your fragile survival. In this inchoate landscape one’s employability is increasingly dependent on one’s identity, especially on one’s ability to convey a sense of winning, success and ease, regardless of whatever precarity and turmoil may lie beneath the surface. Illusion has become the necessary catalyst in that most prosaic of all activities: international business, but at the same time the appellation of mere “illusion” is no longer entirely appropriate to the extent that “realms of imagination” have become so firmly woven into the physical landscape itself, where they facilitate and regulate the transmission of capital and its attendant social relations. This necessity has destabilized our human identities and challenged our sense of public and private. In public our interactions are mediated by the filter-bubbles of targeted advertising and social media. We now view space through our smartphones, and with the advent of technologies like Google Glass the boundaries between physical and digital are increasingly indistinct. Furthermore, in the contemporary world personal dreams, corporate marketing and the relationship of our physical bodies to space are becoming more and more blurred. We have reached a point where there is less distinction between the public, the private and the corporate. “Home Sweet Home”, in its dystopian predictions and descriptions integrates itself into a“barbaric” dialog. In laying bare the alien hostility of the contemporary mental and physical landscape and the horror it evokes, it asks us to search for an alternative logic that prides human interaction and justice over order. Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada, and for the past 15 years he has been working with digital media. As a photographer he became fascinated by contemporary urban environments, exposing the city as a set of perceptions and power conflicts. Archival pigment print on cotton paper Printed by the artist Edition: 10 Image: 13 in X 54 in

Mixed Media:Digital Art on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:54 W x 13 H x 1 D in

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