Angus OgilvieBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: London
Camberwell
In these times of hybrids and in-betweens masculinity has become a subject as slippery as prison soap. This is what my practice grapples with.
What are contemporary rights of passage between boyhood and man hood? The Gym, DIY and the hot rod subculture have a similar texture to primitive performances of machismo. It is these similarities that I am interested in parodying. The reoccurrence of items of Americana in my work and the camp English inflection I give to them, locates my practice as a pervasive machismo subculture itself, that explores ideas of national and social distance by weaving together cultural symbols and sculptural clichés.
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Work of art I would like to makeI would make monument to contemporary manhood. A fully working drag racer utilizing DIY, low fi technology would stand inverted, sprung loaded, waiting.
Occupying a position between redundancy and potential.
By enlarging the design of a mousetrap to formulate a simple engine this chariot of deaths utilitarian aesthetic of bare timer, nuts and bolts and metal tread plate would be an ode to household DIY and the domestication of MANkind.
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My Artworks (3)
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