Skin Forest

Skin Forest is informed by an investigation of Foucault’s concepts of utopia, heterotopia and mirror as ways to apprehend and configure our perception of space.

Exploring the relationships between abstraction, installation and the digital image, the works investigate the interaction between layers within inside and outside of their site. In addition, the contrast between the materiality of paint skins and ephemeral installations refer to the transience of perception.

While the paint skins reference the history of abstract painting, the landscape behind the windows become a placeless space, perceived only in the moment of digital capture. The physical installations occupy a mixed realm of abstraction and spatial reality; the digital collages travel to various windows and coexist in multiple locations. As both approaches are inevitably viewed online, they investigate the relationship between abstraction and reality to create this placeless space as the windows are literal locations removed from site and displayed virtually.

Paint skins on the windows become both an entrance to and a restriction of interpretation depending on the method of installation. By collaging abstraction and the real world within the same frame, the works combine the two into one realm like a mirror.

The mirror creates a utopia, inevitably, through heterotopia. Skin Forest is a reflection of perceptions in this realm that create a form of escapism, exhibited through an institution, online.

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Black (series), 2021  

photograph  

1200 x 1900 mm

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Let Us Coexist, 2020  

digital manipulation  

200 x 178 mm

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Fly's Perspective, 2020  

digital manipulation

1200 x 1970 mm

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Through the candle...s... (series), 2020  

digital manipulation  

500 x 970 mm

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Paint skins can suspend in and from reality, 2021  

synthetic polymer mediums  

1100 x 1000 mm

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