Shane Kennedy is an Irish artist and has recently graduated from Bath Spa University with a degree in Fine Art Media. He works with backlit transparencies, film and collage, sourcing his imagery from the pseudo reality presented in cinema. He attempts to draw a correlation between real world moments of violence and seduction and their cinematic equivalent. Upon reading the works of J. Baudrillard “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place” he became intrigued by the observation that the journalistic image utterly relies on the caption to obtain context, and R. Barthes’ dictatum that the photograph to the great many represents the image of pure truth. Taking this into account he set about remixing the cinematic moments in which acts with strong emotional charge are presented as backlit photograph and using the Hermeneutic code he selects mise-en-scène with enough semic and referential information to allow the viewer to create their own dialogue with the image leaving enough obscurity for the viewer to relate these moments made in faux alongside those presented by news media.
His backlit transparencies are typically presented in black stained wood boxes reminiscent of 1970’s style TV cabinets, often a single work will comprise of a series of light boxes presented alongside each other in order to create a nonlinear storyline within the work. In his college work he plays upon Baudrillard’s observations on the journalistic image and works to dislodge the truth of the image by overlaying them with text that often works against “the caption” attributed to it by what we assume to be the all knowing news media.
INSTALLATION & COLLAGE
from: Installation £1000
Collage £50.00