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Blurred Visions

Ian Wieczorek

5th September - 28th September 2019

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About ‘Blurred Visions’

Blurred Visions is an exhibition that, through various strands, explores the impacts and implications of digital technology on contemporary society – how we locate social and cultural identity, and how we perceive the world.

The paintings in the show are based on low-resolution images harvested from the internet. Without their specific contexts and stories, these poor quality and indistinct images transcend their original documentary intentions and, mediated by our personal experience, they take on a more subjective significance: they become more universal. Rendered through the traditional medium of oil paint on canvas, they also invite the aesthetic reappraisal of what is generally considered ephemeral and disposable ‘digital static’.

The show comprises a number of strands:

The Crossing series and associated works isolate the subject-figures from their surroundings and any localised geographical situation or context, and offer a reflection on the porous nature of borders and the resilience and perseverance of the human condition - the innate compulsion, and often necessity, to cross lines (literally, to transgress).

Missing presents a series of snapshot portraits from 'missing person' posters, of people linked only through events that had not yet occurred when the photographs were taken. They hint at the unpredictable nature of existence and the unknowable fragility of the future.

Autopyre proposes the burning car as a universally recognised symbol for the breakdown of order, a meeting of material and elemental. Without reference to context or geographic location, the series poses questions about the usage of such reportage imagery.

3 Figures is triptych that finds its origins in the 2004 Iraq War. 15 years on, the specific details of the circumstances may have become lost or forgotten, but the embodiment of precarious existence retains its eloquence.

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