Time for this week’s favorite projects, including 3D, paintings, and mixed media works. Scroll down and enjoy the selection!
Featured projects by Maria Makridis, Yu Xie, Whitney Flores, Ben Meyer, and Freya Pryce.
Also see: this week’s selected opportunities.
The Relation Between Photography, the Virtual and What We Consider as Reality
About the project
There is a common fear of technology that holds an increasingly larger place in our lives, while at the same time we are dependent on our electronic devices. I have made several reconstructions of self-portraits as a starting point. The reconstructions show how we are becoming a technological creature, and to what extent we can we replicated. This work is an ode to the perfection as well as to the imperfections of technology, and to the everlasting attempt of mankind replicating all the natural.
The video captured the installation that was shown at the exhibition. The sculpture is actually a 3D-printed self-portrait which consist of 30 photos. The model is exactly what the computer generates when putting the photos together. On the model, I projected a video of myself, which gives the inanimate a sudden uncanny feeling. While the other works give the impression that technology strives for perfection, this work does the complete opposite. By doing this, I want to question the perfection as well as the imperfections of technology, and how man slowly transforms into a digital being.’
About the artist
In 2018, Maria Makridis received her BA in Photography from University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands. In the third year of the course she completed a traineeship at visual artist Felicity Hammond in London. After which, she decided to pursue the MA Photography at London College of Communication. Her graduation project ‘Everything I see is true’ was awarded the Mercers’ Art Award and the Photoworks mentorship award. Makridis has been part of several exhibitions in Netherlands and London.
Ubiquitous Streetscape
by Yu Xie
About the project
The work was created during the epidemic period. Through the deconstruction of the urban landscape, a familiar and unfamiliar scene was created. The superposition and connection of various symbols were used to arouse the viewer’s imagination of individuals and urban objects. Therefore, we can think about the relationship between individuals and groups, and the relationship between objects and space. It doesn’t have any direction, it just tries to lead the viewer to think again about the way of life and how it will change in the future.
About the artist
Yu Xie recieved their bachelor’s degree at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and is currently studying photography at The Glasgow School of Art.
Divination
About the project
An ongoing experimental art project and way to connect with an audience through divination. So far the project has taken place on Instagram, but can be expanded to whomever chooses to participate via email. The participant asks a question and the artist will create a small piece of work using fire and other materials, and it is up the asker to interpret the resulting abstract image and how it will guide them.
About the artist
Whitney Flores (b. 1986) is based in Düsseldorf and works with a variety of mediums, mostly found objects and experimental paintings. The subject matter of each work determines the materials and forms that are used to create them. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Columbia College and a Master of Art History from Henrich Heine Universität.
Tyler
by Ben Meyer
About the project
This is a mix of several layered and mixed paintings, inspired by the style of Basquiat. Among the depicted motifs are Tyler, the Creator, and “Jane Fonda’s Workout”, 1982.
Size: 70 H x 50 W x 2 cm
About the artist
Ben Meyer lives and works in Berlin. His works are currently in private collections in USA, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. He holds a Diploma in Product Design from HfG Karlsruhe 2018 with a minor in Media Art.
The Place
by Freya Pryce
About the project
Psychogeography, the effect of a space on a person’s behaviour, is the main influence of this work. The images lose their existing sense of place and come together to form a new one for the viewer to decipher. When laser printed on black paper the images are dependent on light to be further abstracted or to be able to be seen as a clearer image. The viewer is forced to move in the space to view the image, creating a psychogeographic experience within the gallery space.
About the artist
Freya Pryce is currently working with analog photography practices with the themes of wandering, sense of place and psychogeography. She wanders through spaces, photographing what she’s drawn to whether that be buildings, ripples in the beach or creases in the bed sheets, then she brings those photographs together to corrupt and work off each other to create a new sense of place.
