TERRA INCOGNITA

TERRA INCOGNITA, 2017 (edition 3)  (MUSEUM GLASS AND BLACK LACQUER BOX FRAME)
700 X 300 mm
Swarovski crystals on, C-typye print, facemount glossy plexi / alu-dibond 2+3mm

The work “Terra Incognita” is acting as a cultural archive, about the world itself and how we relate to it. The golden Neo-Baroque surface is a bizarre celebration of the uncertainties of the future, embracing the unknowable consequences of ‘process’,  and simultaneously, how we engage with data, information and transform it into knowledge. AD-REFLEX constantly undermines familiar systems of classification and distorts differentiated meaning. In the age of Google both artists are influenced by the transformation of our world by digital technology, fictive realms, as well as the centuries-old tradition of painting. The embedded painterly elements on Diasec, juxtaposed against the flamboyant presence of Swarovski crystals on the surface,  are an unexpected example of how the artists creatively archive within and without what we perceive to be a certainty.  The viewer cannot always rely what constitutes fact or fiction, which is an outcome of toiling work in the studio and which was transformed and disrupted.