(Hastings, New Zealand, 1973)
Visual artist who works in a variety of media: video, photography, sculpture and installation. Its complex and beautiful temporal structures reveal a poetic sensitivity that contradicts the technical sophistication of its production. Treating time as a physical, malleable material, his digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.
Presents in Medialab Madrid FOOD (FOR) THOUGHT, (THREE) INGREDIENTS OF THE DIET OF MASS CONSUMERS (1994), a video that grotesquely juxtaposes three elements – food, television and Christianity – to question, with subversive humor, the relationships between media messianism, its nutritional value and the consumption habits of viewers.
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