American Beauty (a Trump L'oeil)
American Beauty (a Trump L'oeil)| 2018
CGI Animated Projection - A Commission for the Barbican Centre, London
Concept, Design and Choreography by the Artist, CGI by AVR London
CGI Animated Projection - A Commission for the Barbican Centre, London
Concept, Design and Choreography by the Artist, CGI by AVR London
Shown at the Barbican Centre, London, 24.-05 2018 – 30.12 2018
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IMAGE: Screen shot from Barbican Website, graphic by Rachel Ara
IMAGE: Photograph by AVR London
American Beauty (a Trump L'oeil) uses film, poetry, humour and CGI to create an incongruous image that references film history, utopian architecture and contemporary politics. The iconic brutalist architecture of the Barbican becomes a glitch, a window through which we might catch a glimpse into our future.
Visitors watch as an orange hairpiece dances in the wind in perpetuity around the Barbican Estate, echoing the iconic scene from Sam Mendes’s American Beauty. The title itself a play on the phrase Trompe L’oeil - [Deceives the Eye].
Visitors watch as an orange hairpiece dances in the wind in perpetuity around the Barbican Estate, echoing the iconic scene from Sam Mendes’s American Beauty. The title itself a play on the phrase Trompe L’oeil - [Deceives the Eye].
Technical:
This is a large scale projection using 2 Christie Projectors, projecting a computer generated image of the Barbican into the fabric of the building. The film of the hairpiece blowing is on a 12 minute seamless loop. As day fades, so the projection emulates it and switches into dusk, then the night scene which plays till the Barbican foyers close at 11pm.
This is a large scale projection using 2 Christie Projectors, projecting a computer generated image of the Barbican into the fabric of the building. The film of the hairpiece blowing is on a 12 minute seamless loop. As day fades, so the projection emulates it and switches into dusk, then the night scene which plays till the Barbican foyers close at 11pm.
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Short excerpt from sequence.
The article below is a companion text for the work that is also published on the Barbican website at http://sites.barbican.org.uk/americanbeauty/
Installation Shots
Self Portrait
IMAGE BELOW: Self Portrait with a wig, in conversation @ Barbican Commission 2018
IMAGE: Photograph by the Artist (self portrait)
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