Vacuum Born (solo show), The Newbridge Project, 2020

VBU, VBV, VBW, VBX, and VBY

Aluminium dibond prints. 100 x 100 cm

Vacuum Born showcases a series of .pdf files rendered in aluminium print and through installation.

These works, formerly evident as image-objects, express a method of (post)production characterised by a process of automated actions, which dictate the ways in which the elements within the compositions interact with each other.

Found/generated information-as-images from the internet are used as raw materials, which are then subject to a procedure of standardisation. This means of fabrication develops intangible resources (data) via industrial practices and image editing software, resulting in hybridised and allegorical artefacts.

Functionality is absent by design and utilitarian application is denied.

Vacuum Born doubts the emancipatory promise of technological perfection by provoking questions around purpose, labour practices, use value, self-determination, sustainability and productivity within an economic system in which human behaviour is a commodity.