heterotopia

The flow through body. The flow through time. The flow through space. In this exhibition we are translucent and one with the between. Every art piece is intertwined with flow: The flow of water, the flow of conversation, the flow of time, and the flow of sound. Everything holds still, but nothing at all. Have you ever flowed? Come flow with us.

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bodies of water

Nothing is more clear in the time of a shut in than how much the chemistry that makes up my body, the 60% of myself filled with water, needs nature to survive.

The relief, the connection felt in the brief hours escaping the room of isolation that my bedroom had become since the start of the pandemic, spent sitting with, sitting in nature.

Sitting with the water, it no longer mattered that no one was there, the chemistry of me knew I was 60% of the vast body of the lake spread before me, and it was 60% of me, a comfort that surprised me.

In this piece I am exploring this feeling of tranquility during such a transitional period we found ourselves living in, living through, the combination and soft collision of two bodies of water

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glimmer

Inner and outer worlds; our own private heterotopia. Often we are in situations not of our making and yet we need or want to appear as though we are exactly where we want to be, leading to a retreat into one’s own inner world and different reality to escape.

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your bedroom

‘your bedroom’ is a short repeating gif that pries on the comfort and familiarity of the bedroom. The AI generation creates an unnatural and jarring rendition of what a bed room is.

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art moving through time

This artwork shows a collection of well known art around the world at different times.These photos were gathered from the internet showing our digital history of knowledge on art. It is also shown through books or told history. I was inspired by the book, ‘The world is a computer’ and The Matrix films to depict our understanding of how we view the world. It made me decide to go back and gather a collection of photos of historical art from each time period. The thing is not every detail can be collected and art history is often written by modern artist trying to understand the past. Some art we see today may not of been seen as art in their time but as diagrams, science or for use purposes, like cooking.

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The flow through body. The flow through time. The flow through space.

In this exhibition we are translucent and one with the between. Every art piece is intertwined with flow: The flow of water, the flow of conversation, the flow of time, and the flow of sound. Everything holds still, but nothing at all.

Have you ever flowed? Come flow with us.

Surrogate Reality is a digital exhibition, opening the 11th March 2022, created by 5 UCA Fine Art students.

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