Joseph Christie Evans

This show was made over the last two years while I was thinking of the digital hybridisation of image culture. The show is a display of the dichotomy of proliferated images that are found on the online visual media space. The physical grounding of these images are an attempt to recreate the online sphere of images in a material environment. As we adapt to contemporary living practices, with the complexities of online versus in-person engagement, the presentation of contemporary and historical subject matter has become hybridised and homogenised, in the context of the 21st Century. Cameras present snapshots of luxury as well as mundane mediocrity, which all amalgamates on phones and laptops. This technology is the new Mecca and spiritual centre for beauty, and where to see the prevailing style of a particular time instead of through a particular physical environment.

 

The show explores the idea of the current online media zeitgeist, and its potential for homogenous interconnection between banal subjects and visual experimentation. The hybridisation of contemporary media develops a dissolve of information in creating new objects and Images. The paintings are images pertaining to academic and referential media including text book images, wikipedia images, online chat room screenshots etc, and the editing of these images alludes to disrupted visual connection between the physical and the online. It's important to represent our current online cultural practices to inform us of how this culture of proliferation affects our present social capabilities and engagement with our surroundings.​​