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JOOLS JOHNSON: SAATCHI ONLINE CRITIC'S CHOICE BY ANGELA ROBERTS
'God lives in Detail VI', 2008
Recycled computer parts
6.5 x 12 x 7 cm
Technology, and our love/hate relationship with it, is one of the main themes of Jools Johnson's work. The installations reuse every single nut, bolt and screw of old computers and reconfigure them into objects of strange yet familiar beauty. His work has a playful quality, as though he had re-imagined these pieces of metal and plastic - unthinkingly consigned to the scrap heap by the vast majority of us - through the eyes of a child. The result is a group of meticulous dioramas that bear witness to the information that we collect and then discard.
Johnson finds use for the detritus of our information driven society. In his hands a pile of old circuit boards and the workaday plastic shell and metal casings for a computer screen or hard drive have new meaning.
To see more of his work registered on Saatchi Online click here.
Angela Roberts
Angela Roberts is a freelance writer currently living and working in Basel and Zurich.
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Angela Roberts is a freelance writer currently living and working in Basel and Zurich.
