I Know What is Real
2019
Archival Inkjet print
75 x 50 cm. Framed
Edition of 3
€650 Framed
Printed on Hahnemule Gloss, sprayed with a gloss finish, and laminated.
Custom made frames, painted in Porche 944 Satin Black Metallic paint.
Manchester
2019
Archival Inkjet print
75 x 50 cm. Framed
Edition of 3
€650 Framed
Printed on Hahnemule Gloss, sprayed with a gloss finish, and laminated.
Custom made frames, painted in Porche 944 Satin Black Metallic paint.
About the Artist
Brian Teeling’s practice explores ways of interrogating the medium of photography through an honest, autobiographical account of his lived experience. The work ranges in context from public space to the innately private, often focusing on the trappings of queer, working-class and masculine identities. Through his interests in the crossover between aesthetics and activism he examines the purported rituals that can sometimes permeate these communities. The resulting work expressed various forms; CCTV tubes, projected image, clothing, unlimited edition prints, installation, electronic devices and large-scale sculptural work.
We’re at a moment in our history where there is no vision of the future anymore, stuck in a limbo between utopia and dystopia. The constant mechanisms of division that defines our political environment means we are more and more self-identifying. This inner-focus could be what is the emergence and nadir of our collective anxiety. Can art be personalised when meaning has become destabilised and the real and fictional have collapsed into each other?
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