Hollie MackenzieBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: Ashford
AUCB
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My practice explores the notions of utopia and dystopia, creating my own version of a dystopian landscape in the form of installation.
I take part of the site; whether it is the ceiling, walls or the stairs and distort it to a point that it no longer functions as an element in the building design but becomes something dystopian, distorting its surroundings and environment to present an alturnative deviant reality. The theatrical and absurd realities of the installations present extreme and unfamiliar situations for the viewer to engage in and interpret its proximity to the reality we live in.
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Work of art I would like to makeI have been exploring transitional spaces; recently focusing on staircases, I investigated the notion of the 'stairway to heaven' – stairway to utopia – and created 'Downfall'. An installation which presented a distortion of a staircase and its passage way, reflecting the impossibility of reaching utopia.
The next installation proposal is a continuation from this theme; I would distort a door by manipulating its wooden material and its frame into drips and droplets to create the melting illusion, and craft the handle to appear as though it had melted to the floor therefore rendering it useless. The collaboration of drips would bind the door in place within its frame which would prevent it from achieving its primary function as a portal between two transitional spaces.
However, infront of the melting door will be a completely intact door. The stark contrast between the two doors will portray in physical form the concept of 'the grass is greener on the other side'. The viewer's ability to open the first functioning door to only find an impossible obstacle will demonstrate how we can be delluded by our individual desires to seek better. That sometimes, we are confronted by the realisation that our ideals are merely products of our imaginations and that we have created a fantasy. The melting door presented to the viewer will represent this dystopian element of utopian dreaming and allow the viewer to consider the true origin of the word 'utopia' - by its defintion as a 'no-place'.
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My Artworks (6)
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