Artist Statement
As a contemporary painter and a digital designer, I aim to portray the vibrant chaos of screen culture and its impact on focus, memory and perception.
My process-led paintings are a visual frenzy of overlapping and interfering image planes, imitating misbehaving digital media files, mental overlaps and sensory overloads.
By adding and subtracting, location and medium switching, my canvas layers come out in a distorted medley, evoking the most human tendency technology displays, a glitch, a mishap.
LAYERS pop-up show
london, brixton, 18-20 october 2024
For one weekend only: You are invited to peel back the layers of this multifaceted, collective inquiry by moving through the space, peek beyond the surface, and reflect on the complex interplay between external appearances and internal truths. What will you discover? Transitory phases, signs of a metamorphosis, or the decomposition and birth of matter?
Held in a repurposed department store close to Brixton tube station, Layers is an exhibition by the International Artist Collective UNPRIMED Collective, from Turps Art School, London.
Fri 18 Oct (12-6) Sat 19 Oct (11-6) Sun 20 Oct (11-5)
Private View: 3-6pm Saturday 19 Oct
Downstairs, The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Road, London, SW9 8FR
"Selec’s work investigates the glitch, something that is mysterious, unknowable and usually temporary
or short-lived. This transient fault is intrinsically difficult to troubleshoot and therefore hard to pin down in technological terms and life! The same can be said of the effects of uncertainty and the anxiety caused by technology and consuming media. The layers of glitch on glitch can confuse us further and thus mounts the tension and anxiety."
~ Karen Parker, Intersilient
“I find that nothing articulates virtual as well as the glitch does. Like beauty, it commands our attention, and wakes us up. We notice being plucked out of immediate reality and sucked into a virtual one.
As digital noise blurs the boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral,
I invite the viewer into such a mindful opportunity.”
~ Djuro