This exhibition, which includes artists such as: Andy Coolquitt, Jen Liu, New York - based jeweller and artist, Hanna Sandin, and Mika Tajima will look at today's
mechanisation used by artists to deal with the representation of the self, without relying on gender binaries.
Not exact matches
His first solo exhibition was a Sanchez Cotán in Trondheim, Norway in 2009 and recent projects include The devil finds work for idle hands at Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco (2012) and Drawology: drawing as phenomenology at the Bonington Gallery Nottingham, and the co-curation of A Machine Aesthetic at Gallery North, Northumbria University, The Gallery, The Arts University Bournemouth, University of Lincoln, Norwich University of the Arts (2013 - 2014) where eleven contemporary artists were invited to explore the various manifestations,
uses and influences of different aspects of
mechanisation within their practice.
Their parallels lie in the conscious
use of found objects from an industrialised America, reflecting economics, consumerism and
mechanisation.
Roberts then asks us to panic about the possibility of the political voice of fat Americans being
used to demand, elevators, escalators, and other forms of labour - saving
mechanisation, which in turn worsens the cycle of increasing fuel
use, carbon emissions, and the world's waistlines.