INFERNO

Ed Fornieles “Modern Family” / Chisenhale Gallery, London / jusqu’au 9 Novembre 2014.

La Chisenhale gallery présente « Modern family »de Ed Dornieles, construite autour d’un travail online de l’artiste, qui constitue le coeur de cette exposition.

Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by London and Los Angeles-based artist Ed Fornieles. A new online work forms the basis of the exhibition and is presented on screens within an installation environment also comprising sculpture and live performance.

“Modern Family” skews the material logic of home improvement, sitcom architecture and the shopping mall, taking us on a journey to a distant yet familiar suburban land. Fornieles invites you to join the family BBQ as an artificial Californian sun sets over the gallery. The installation plays with scale and spatial perspective to create a cartoonish landscape of sculptures, combining high-spec finishes and new technology with a ‘living room materiality’. Operating in a complex territory exploring the impact of the virtual on the physical world, this new body of work mirrors a reality constructed from our own collective desires and subjectivities, confronting the mechanics of the Internet and revealing the dichotomy between dystopic banality and the pleasure of excess.

copyright the artist / photos andy Keate
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