Team.
With this project I want to examine the effects of a group of similar figures in a specific place. Imagery from celebrity's photographs, icons, urban fashion or TV, and pop music gives an opportunity to observe codes of representation. My intention is to present a collection of eleven figures like a football team. The individual bases made of concrete and vertical wooden poles attached in the centre of the base, coated with jesmonite and black pigment. At the top of each wooden pole there is a series of disparate head made of diverse found objects and images layered to generate different colourful characters. I make an extensive use of appropriation, a range of objects to create visual images to reflect aspects of contemporary society. My work is influenced by carnival disguise and the extravagant, cheerful and humorous expression of freedom characteristic of carnival. By layering the objects, each portrait suggests a flamboyant individuality and character.
To coordinate the collection of the figures and to map a spatial strategy, I will manage the whole of the group which is a team; teams are particularly suitable for conducting tasks that are difficult to achieve, helping one another and achieving their goals through coordinated skills. Football events attract a huge amount of mass communication and popular attention; football is a tribal game played in every culture in the world, and nowadays is a sport of the masses. I take carnival aesthetic to confront the viewer with a proposition of carnival in stasis in a motionless state.
In making this work I was enjoying with the spontaneous expression and freedom from the modernist formality of the previous totemic work I made. This previous work was exhibited at the Biscuit Factory in January of 2011. I live in the Bermondsey area, and most of the items have been collected within a close radius of my house, my college and Deptford second hand market. I am using the local resources to make the final piece and enjoy the proximity of diverse cultural sources to make the final show at the topographical centre of my hypothetical triangle.
With this project I want to examine the effects of a group of similar figures in a specific place. Imagery from celebrity's photographs, icons, urban fashion or TV, and pop music gives an opportunity to observe codes of representation. My intention is to present a collection of eleven figures like a football team. The individual bases made of concrete and vertical wooden poles attached in the centre of the base, coated with jesmonite and black pigment. At the top of each wooden pole there is a series of disparate head made of diverse found objects and images layered to generate different colourful characters. I make an extensive use of appropriation, a range of objects to create visual images to reflect aspects of contemporary society. My work is influenced by carnival disguise and the extravagant, cheerful and humorous expression of freedom characteristic of carnival. By layering the objects, each portrait suggests a flamboyant individuality and character.
To coordinate the collection of the figures and to map a spatial strategy, I will manage the whole of the group which is a team; teams are particularly suitable for conducting tasks that are difficult to achieve, helping one another and achieving their goals through coordinated skills. Football events attract a huge amount of mass communication and popular attention; football is a tribal game played in every culture in the world, and nowadays is a sport of the masses. I take carnival aesthetic to confront the viewer with a proposition of carnival in stasis in a motionless state.
In making this work I was enjoying with the spontaneous expression and freedom from the modernist formality of the previous totemic work I made. This previous work was exhibited at the Biscuit Factory in January of 2011. I live in the Bermondsey area, and most of the items have been collected within a close radius of my house, my college and Deptford second hand market. I am using the local resources to make the final piece and enjoy the proximity of diverse cultural sources to make the final show at the topographical centre of my hypothetical triangle.