The Perfect Lawn
I recently won the Danish Embassy Art Prize 2015, whereby I have been awarded a solo show at the Royal Danish Embassy from 11Â March 2015 to March 2016.
For my show entitled The Perfect Lawn, I have put a body of work together, in which I question and pull apart both the surface of the image and the objects conveyed through it. I aim to illuminate and pick up on the quotidian and highlight the often overlooked strangeness and beauty in the world around us. I pick at the backsides of things and take them to the forefront, putting them up to be questioned and contemplated by the viewer. Through my enquiry into the surface of the things around us, I try to question how we define a surface. Whether it be repellent or delightful, I endeavour to leave the viewer in an in-between space, from which they can question their own positioning in the world.Â
Through a long-term engagement into the production and installation of imagery, I want to reflect a symptom of our times whereby we live in a world that is (as Baudrillard said in 1994):‘more real than the real, that is how the real is abolished’.Â
And it is through this engagement into imagery – and how we create and view imagery in light of the way that technology has affected it – that I interrogate the idea of the ‘hyper-real’ world in which we live. In the end, I intend to neither neglect technology nor its effects, but to question and reassess them.Â
In a sense I become a conduit for images, objects, actions and their surface qualities. Whether these surfaces are inorganic or organic, it is up to the viewer. I try to question what it means to live in the world by encouraging the viewer to look at all matter from a different angle and subsequently dismantle our long held perceptions of the texture of the world around us, by leading the eye to different orders of space and surface.Â