I am Not and Never have I Ever Been
OffPrint, Tate Modern, 17-19 May 2024
Design Elements Lukas Novotny
Untitled (cutup) 2025, 'M(asking)', The Good Rice, London. 25-27 July 2025.
On the week of the UK release of Sebastián Silva’s gay comedy thriller Rotting in the Sun (2023) I received several messages from friends urging me to watch the film. This publication forms out of a series of coincidences that kept leading me to my alleged doppelgänger. A movie review that never quite gets to the movie. Auto-theory but really just a self-insert fanfiction. As we turn ourselves into virtual brands, watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister, it asks how do we negotiate the demands to be seen with the shady doublings that persist in this surreal moment in history?
Created on the occasion of OffPrint London 2024, presented along with publications by students and colleagues on MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
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Print on paper. Unlimited, 300 x 100 mm.
Paper weaving. 210 x 297mm and 148 x 210mm.
Taking this publication as source for a new version (an uncanny Thirdman?) the cut-up technique is applied to weave both images together to produce a new image (front) and new text (back). The work gestures towards the infinite potential of the cuttup, where our bodies and images become open-source sites and material assets for re-working in the digital age.
Created on the occasion of M(asking) an exhibition at The Good Rice bringing together multidisciplinary artists working across sculpture, performance, publication, textile, moving image and more — each interrogating the edges between identity and anonymity, care and control, self and simulation.
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