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EXHIBITED: 22 JUNE - 2 JULY 2022
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
DEGREE SHOW 2022
ANNEX BUILDING
OLD CASTLE ST
LONDON, E1 7NT
https://www.ldnmetarts.photography/degreeshow2022/
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
DEGREE SHOW 2022
ANNEX BUILDING
OLD CASTLE ST
LONDON, E1 7NT
https://www.ldnmetarts.photography/degreeshow2022/
Faitours Forge, 2021-22
Installation of 24 C-Type Kodak Metallic Prints on Dibond, Two Screen Projections, Audio, Lighting.
Meta Masks, 23 x 33cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [01-12]
Stage Avatar, 41 x 27cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [13-16]
Stage Avatar, 13 x 20cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [17-24]
Meta Masks, 23 x 33cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [01-12]
Stage Avatar, 41 x 27cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [13-16]
Stage Avatar, 13 x 20cm, C-Type, Kodak Metallic on Dibond [17-24]
Video Projection, 4’ 16”, (looped)
Video Projection, 3’ 21”, (looped)
See: www.vimeo.com/tristansvideos
Video Projection, 3’ 21”, (looped)
See: www.vimeo.com/tristansvideos
FAITOUR: A person who deceives others.
FORGE: To form by heating and hammering; to beat into shape.
FORGE: To form by heating and hammering; to beat into shape.
Faitours Forge is a portrayal of the relationship between identity and masquerade, the interplay between always-on connectivity, intrusive technology and the platform. There is a powerful yet hypocritical duality of the platform’s questioning of self-worth and self-identification, whilst it duplicitously facilitates self-gratification, fulfilling the egotistical desire to be noticed, valued, praised, and adored. We, the participants, masked behind the platform, perform for the world to see. As individuals, we’re assimilated by technological osmosis - into this ever-expanding metaverse, where the core persona is shaped, formed and informed through environmental and technological feedback, as a cognitive process. This is where the meta-self is forged. A subset of personas distinct from those which we carry into the physical world. They are virtual, yet we value and defend them and their existence, to the core.
Water, Earth, Air, Fire - Mythological tropes employed to bring sense to the chaos of identity, repurposed and technologically reinterpreted through my masks, serve as metaphors for the physicality of device, our pseudo-cyborg state of being, the handing over of self-sufficiency to technology. The stage, a construct symbolising the opaque cloak of platforms, the technological-medium we now exist within.
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