My work is about investigating the relationship between reality and representation found in the tension between human and nature. I discover the contradiction existing between appearance and content by exposing the disorder in our surrounding environment. Thus redistributing the realization of environmental concerns. I create contemporary fictional urban, natural locations, containing scenes and patterns that create a sense of familiarity through the use of some small found objects or images. I build the duality through beauty and toxicity. My works emphasize notions of alienation, greed, waste, and desire inherent in modern life. Miscommunication and fantasy are excuses invented to obscure the reality, which is accompanied by an undeniably fictitious, constructed landscape. In my work, I build conflict between the surface and background to overturn one’s understanding of reality.
I work predominantly in video, digital print, drawing, collage, and 3D virtual interaction. I appropriate, create and reassemble imagery from garbage, advertising junks, abandoned landscapes, and some other waste products in order to create a fantastical world, where all true realities are concealed beneath the surface of beauty; where something has been hiding. I question the relationship between reality and representation, truth and lies, between what we see and what we want to believe, between what is and what we create for ourselves. I want to bring out those questions and incite investigative thought concerning the world we live in and the postmodern cultural experience about duality, uncertainty, and doubt of reality itself.
Joe Ren: Man-made Landscape-Splash 4
The work I am included in the show is a new series of mine that started in 2019. This series of work is inspired by a documentary about plastic pollution I watched. In this series of work, I use plastic bags to create the movement of water and a fantastical world, where all true realities are concealed beneath the surface of beauty; where something has been hiding. The work emphasizes the environmental concern and greed, waste, and desire inherent in our modern life. We believe in what we want to believe. We create something else for ourselves in order to easier to deal with what actually is?
Dimensions | 24 × 36 in |
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Price | $650 |
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