Original Versus Copy
C print, in variable size and dimensions, 2015
Our everyday culture is filled with disposable images, juxtapositions and appropriation. This is reflected in current art-making practices. Work that uses pre-existing images, forms, and ideas and leaves the new works open for interpretations and associations from the viewers, acts as an active experience rather than a static idea or form. When an image is transposed upon on a space a fundamental ontological shift occurs. Is the space the image or is the image the space. When Mondrian’s ‘composition with blue, red, yellow and black’ and Monet’s ‘waterlilies’ were sold for millions of dollars. What is the value of the image as it is reflected into an alien space, a space where it does not belong. Is it the same image as the image when it adorns large international galleries? Are these images when transposed into the desert original images or copies and where is the line between these two concepts drawn?
