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a body of work created by Reuben Brown for the Belfast School of Art, BFA Fine Art Sculpture Lens Degree Show - titled SATIN CHROME + INFINITE VIOLENCE [June 2022]
“SATIN CHROME” (2022)
Ritualistic shrine installation constructed with; 20 x 4’x8’ chipboard sheets, glossy white ceramic tiles, adhesive and grout. Installation consisting of 3 x 1080x1920px flat screens positioned in a biconcave composition & 1 x 1080x1920px flat screen positioned in front centre, each screening a unique verison of 3D-CG Film “SATIN CHROME” (2022)
4.42m (L) x 2.72m (W) x 0.85m (H) [Shrine]
4.42m (L) x 4.22m (W) x 2.35m (H) [Total Installation]
As part of “Sculpture Lens Degree Show” at Belfast School of Art (2022).
“The main over-arching intention of my practice is to satisfy an attempt to consider and self-actualise my queered (specifically queer-masculine) identity within the contexts of the constantly fluctuating and mercurial hyper-reality which surrounds us. Inspired by the concepts of rural-frustration and actualised queer-joy, my CG filmography aims to locate the queered-masculine identity within various destructive, yet sensationalised virtual hyper-worlds and sequences.
My degree show films, “SATIN CHROME” (2022) and “INFINITEVIOLENCE” (2022) are among a series of non-linear, semi-autobiographical CG films which are not necessarily narrative, but are inherently inter-linked. They loosely follow a queered-masculine figure whose identity is unknown, who accidentally survives some kind of apocalyptic event/armageddon. The figure becomes burdened with the responsibility of being the last living example of humanity and then becomes subjected to a seemingly infinite violence of repetitious, un-consensual transfiguration. There is a constant battle between a sense of becoming, and a sense of un-becoming in the imagery of the filmography, suggesting the uncertain conceptual fate of the online avatars we create and perform as on the Internet”
“SATIN CHROME” (2022)
Ritualistic shrine installation constructed with; 20 x 4’x8’ chipboard sheets, glossy white ceramic tiles, adhesive and grout. Installation consisting of 3 x 1080x1920px flat screens positioned in a biconcave composition & 1 x 1080x1920px flat screen positioned in front centre, each screening a unique verison of 3D-CG Film “SATIN CHROME” (2022)
4.42m (L) x 2.72m (W) x 0.85m (H) [Shrine]
4.42m (L) x 4.22m (W) x 2.35m (H) [Total Installation]
As part of “Sculpture Lens Degree Show” at Belfast School of Art (2022).
“INFINITE VIOLENCE” (2022)
CG Film “INFINITE VIOLENCE” (2022) screened on Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4.0 Liquid Crystal Display, wireless power bank and Raspberry Pi 4 Model B system, adhesive strips, laser-cut transparent acrylic detailing, laser-cut transparent acrylic spike chain, chain & hardware and 0.4m diameter mirror ball.
0.12m (L) x 0.062m (H) x 0.1m (W) [Screen System]
0.036m (H) x 0.036m (W) [Individual Chain Links], 12m (L) [Chain Length]
As part of “Sculpture Lens Degree Show” at Belfast School of Art (2022) &
“Royale Arcade Academy” at Arcade Gallery and Studios, Belfast (2022)
“INFINITE VIOLENCE” (2022)
CG Film, 1080x1920px, 22 min 36 sec (loop).
As part of “Sculpture Lens Degree Show” at Belfast School of Art (2022)