SYNTHETIC REAL

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STUART BAILES | JODIE CAREY | GABRIEL DUBOIS | PETER MACDONALD | NICK CROWE AND IAN RAWLINSON | NEAL ROCK | AMY STEPHENS Edel Assanti is pleased to present Synthetic Real, an exhibition of interdisciplinary work by seven artists exploring an alternative methodology of non-representational artistic production. Synthetic Real examines the ongoing relevance and renewal of an abstract framework for forging an artistic language. This theme is explored through the presentation of a group of artists whose practices take as a point of conception the visual substance, rule systems and aesthetics of everyday phenomenal reality. Circumventing Malevich's maxim that the world we experience via our senses cannot present an ‘artistic beginning', the seven artists in Synthetic Real mine this reality, deconstructing it as source material for their respective visual languages. Disparate layers of our sensory world are processed, dismantled and filtered uniquely in the case of each artist, as traces of ‘the real' are revealed independently in each artwork. Space and perspective are explored within fields of shifting discernability, where light, material and surface serve to conceal as much as they reveal. The works resonate with an alluring, uncanny familiarity in these properties, yet simultaneously open dialogues with a visual world beyond the real.