Still Life
(2021)
Still Life (2021),
altered banknote/digital image,
65x 66 mm/291 KB.
Still Life (2021),
oil and varnish on laser- and
hand-carved plywood,
60x60x1 cm.
(2021)
Still Life (2021),
altered banknote/digital image,
65x 66 mm/291 KB.
Still Life (2021),
oil and varnish on laser- and
hand-carved plywood,
60x60x1 cm.
The series of visual works entitled ‘Still Life’ reflects on the role of the audience in art and the valuation of artworks in an age of endless reproduction. The recurring pattern is an appropriation of the EURion constellation, a visual code often found on banknotes that instructs a computer not to allow digital reproduction of an image.
Practically this code was implemented to combat fraud, yet in many instances it is disguised as decorative and embedded into the design of a banknote. For example, the variation found on Australian $5 notes is arranged in the shape of a flower.
‘Still Life’ questions the relationship between aesthetics and value in contemporary art, and the role in which an audience, cognitive or computerised, plays in deciding this. What can be classified as an ‘artwork’ in the digital age: an object of beauty and insight, or a token of exclusivity and enforced scarcity?
Practically this code was implemented to combat fraud, yet in many instances it is disguised as decorative and embedded into the design of a banknote. For example, the variation found on Australian $5 notes is arranged in the shape of a flower.
‘Still Life’ questions the relationship between aesthetics and value in contemporary art, and the role in which an audience, cognitive or computerised, plays in deciding this. What can be classified as an ‘artwork’ in the digital age: an object of beauty and insight, or a token of exclusivity and enforced scarcity?
Still Life (2021),altered banknote/digital image,
65x 66 mm/291 KB.
Still Life (2021),
oil and varnish on laser- and hand-carved plywood,
60 x 60 x 1 cm.
Still Life [detail] (2021),
oil and varnish on laser- and hand-carved plywood,
60 x 60 x 1 cm.