Robin Kirsten

The primary setting for my work is the studio, which I use as a testing ground to experiment with objects and their relations to each other. By reworking photographs taken of myself, and/or objects within the studio, I create images of works and situations that never existed. I also work with found images, and look for ways to extract data form them, and to expand that data to expose what is not seen in the original image. Objects are also collected and placed together into syntactical relations, in order to suggest a narrative.

The Artist in a Black Suit is a character I created to function as a stand-in that transforms myself into a generic artist and an object among other objects. This move echoes my preference for looking at ideas and narratives that are themselves broad, generic, universal and abstract.

The circle, sphere, orb, whole, hole, disc etc., is a dominant form in my work and operates as a placeholder, or cypher, to express some of these abstract qualities of the themes I am interested in, such as infinity, worlds, and the concept of the event.

Underpinning this is my fascination with the way in which making work within the framework of the Holographic Paradigm creates a machine for a way of thinking that always produces new work. This enables me to be able to continue to continue, as an artistic ambition and end in itself.