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The Vending Machine Project |
IMAGES
ARTIST: Catriona Moore
Title: Various, (2006)
Medium: White silk emulsion on 6mm MDF boards.
Quantity Available: 15 (all different)
Location: Connolly Station
About the work
I've always trawled through magazines and books, videos and films to find what
I wanted to collect. I'm very interested in that idea of hoarding things and
making craft out of them, the way that teenage girls do. It's a habit I've
had since I was that age.I'm interested in taking a teenagers worldview and
it's particular set of assumptions about socialisation into the forum of art.
In
my work I focus on collecting clips of information from popular culture sources:
Information which warps or changes in meaning when removed from its
original context- looking at the ridiculous in details within the confines
of society, everyday life and old-fashioned values. I enjoy twisting the line
between the fairytale fantastic (fiction) and the domestic, mundane everyday
(reality) truth. My work plays with the potentialities of found imagery and
text which seems to fit together, clues codes and connotations of themes. Images
draw mainly on themes of socialisation, moral fables and myths, the use of
the narrative and the storytelling tradition- this acquisition and portrayal
of odd social information; cultural hiccups or quirks in peoples stories/ lives
and the transferral of this information from the realm of reality to that of
fantasy or fairytale.
Traditional fairytale motifs, concepts and images become
involved with images and text lifted from the world of consumerism and communication:
Advertising,
magazines, T.V., film, storybooks, newspaper articles and literature in a type
of culture clash which brings about new undercurrents of meaning or interpretation.
