- Venue
- The Muse Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, September 28, 2023
- Ends
- Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Address
- 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- The Muse Gallery
Rob Birch – Collapsing New People
PV Thursday 28th September, 6-9pm
Show runs from 28 September – 22 October
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Collapsing New People
These are portraits that are shorn of the oppressive tropes of representation, social status, kudos and binary notions of self. These are rejected as outdated and representative of a colonial, racialised, patriarchal, and socio-political hierarchies framed withing a capitalist paradigm. This is one that is riven violence and no longer fit for purpose.
If we are to negate these Cartesian notions of self it is understood that identity itself needs to be reframed, reappropriated and represented in ways we have yet the facility to comprehend. It is about placing our notions of self upon a sensorial platform, where identity is a living experience, felt rather than seen. My work uses the open grammar of collage and the potential of the digital to provide opportunities to express identity as a relational sense of self. It investigates the inherent qualities of collage and its ability to order new relationships of meaning from matter within a Cartesian value system and works towards the creation of a likeness based upon sensation, a sensorial likeness.
