The worlds vast archive of visual art is extensive, I investigate how these images function and exist through constant experimentation. Their ever changing historical, social and cultural values are immediate stigmas which I exploit and manipulate into new artworks. Collective notions of taste and beauty are shared and culturally conditioned, and classically seeking to represent a more seductive out look through social algorithms. Although beauty provokes a risk of buying in to narcissism, what it has in common with the functionality of images which I investigate is a high level of illusion that creates a tension between the sentiment a viewer experiences and the reality of an images physical state. For the most part, this what my practise utilizes in order to draw possible conclusions.

 

Images are very ephemeral, put quite simply they are very sophisticated systems and signs that add to our culture. The intangibility of the digital images in a frame-less, free-flowing world has been a key aspect that I believe best represents their paradoxical state. Such ideas are well recognized and explored in Hans Belting's "An Anthropology of Images" and Vilem Flusser's "Into the Universe of Technical Images". I welcome intangibility and surrealism into my process because they best mimic this contradiction.

 

I reference and borrow a lot of content; this could be anything from aesthetics of certain styles to elements from famous historical paintings. For me appropriation is vital when trying to understand collective readings, and being able to set a certain appeal against other visual systems is important in the re-contextualisation of new context.

 

Exhibitions:

- European Exchange Academy

- Postscript

- Vantage Price

- Awakening

 

Contact:

Email - scottdarcy_art@live.co.uk

Website - https://scottdarcy.squarespace.com/