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| Shawn Smith’s work explores the depiction of nature through digital technology and comments on the effects of technology on our perception of the world. Smith’s recent work explores his interest in birds of prey as a source of conceptual inspiration and analogy. Smith is fascinated by vultures and the visceral way most people react to them. For his exhibition in the Project Space, Smith asks the question, “What would a digital vulture eat if it was somehow trapped inside this reality?” Vicious Venue is a sculptural installation consisting of a group of life-size pixelated vultures devouring an analog office full of obsolete technologies (like a typewriter, rolodex, and a rotary phone). The viewer becomes an intruder into the space, as if they are stumbling into the middle of the ongoing carnage as the vultures pick the office’s carcass clean. Smith’s current work highlights the collision of the digital world and the real world by creating pixilated sculptures interacting with found objects. For his installation in the Project Space, Smith pushes the scale and scope of his current work by creating an installation that creates a narrative and brings these objects to life. The title of the exhibition, Vicious Venue, refers to the double meaning of “venue” as both a place, and a group of vultures. |
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