artist-Paul Helliwell
Paul Helliwell
A fragment of the body is given as gift and sacrifice, a synecdoche of what it is to be human, life and limb entwine in language.
Some things are already images, a statue is both a representation and an object; but a painting of a statue reimagines the space between image and thing.
Alluding to classical antiquity draws an emotional and libidinal correlation to the contrast between dormant motionless figures and the abeyant violence and conflict enacted upon their severed and incomplete anatomy.
Broken and shattered bodies are reliquary fragments of personal, social, and art historical memory.
Like the lost limbs of antiquity our technological being speaks of a battle to prevent us becoming indistinguishable from the soil we seek to escape.
Fragile spatial planes humanise the architecture and circuitry of digital space but also digitise the body and mind.
An enduring pleasure of painting is the apparent primacy of visual stimuli over conceptual data, seemingly privileging the eye before the intellect pursues.
Paul Helliwell
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Some things are already images, a statue is both a representation and an object; but a painting of a statue reimagines the space between image and thing.
Alluding to classical antiquity draws an emotional and libidinal correlation to the contrast between dormant motionless figures and the abeyant violence and conflict enacted upon their severed and incomplete anatomy.
Broken and shattered bodies are reliquary fragments of personal, social, and art historical memory.
Like the lost limbs of antiquity our technological being speaks of a battle to prevent us becoming indistinguishable from the soil we seek to escape.
Fragile spatial planes humanise the architecture and circuitry of digital space but also digitise the body and mind.
An enduring pleasure of painting is the apparent primacy of visual stimuli over conceptual data, seemingly privileging the eye before the intellect pursues.
Paul Helliwell
[email protected]
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