exe Painting

Simon Pike is an artist based in London. His work utilizes a disparate and fractured array of content sourced online. This content is then digitally manipulated and transferred to panel or canvas in a combination of layers of paint, ink and medium with varying degrees of transparency which result in a high gloss, glass like surface reminiscent of the screen. As layers of content build, individual elements and meanings become obscured and confused at the service of a coherent aestheticised whole. These works explore the fractured and fluid temporalities, the collisions and juxtapositions of subjects and the mix of virtual and real in digital culture which is increasingly defining our world. Where the line between reality and fiction is becoming increasingly ambiguous as fluid information seamlessly flows from one user to another in our always-already networked world.