New Utopia, Brighton Photo Fringe, Open14 Shortlist Exhibition

3 large format Digital Photographic Collages from the series New Utopia were exhibited in public spaces in Brighton as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe in 2014. Works were installed on large scale vinyl in several locations and exhibited as a slide show in the Regency Town House, Hove.

The works question the reading of photographic images, particularly in digital formats. A large range of source images were used to construct these collages: my own photographs, to imagery found on the internet, so that there is no one point of reference. The digital manipulation obvious, even cack-handed and amateurish and to juxtapose the scales of particular elements within the image, so that the viewer oscillates between believing the image and being aware of its fakery. Forcing the viewer to confront their own reading of the images, and the mental image bank through which they are building meaning. In doing, I attempt to explore the relationship between constructed images and the real, questioning where truth/reality lies (if it exists at all).

The work attempts to interrogate where the distinction between fact and fiction becomes blurred, how cultural references become stereotyped and misconstrued.

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