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Exhibition
Collapsing New People
28 Sep 2023 – 22 Oct 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 269 Portobello Road
- London
United Kingdom - W11 1LR
- United Kingdom
An exhibition of new work by Rob Birch
About
There is a crisis in human capital, the social, the economy and the environment and as a result there is a crisis what it takes to be human. This crisis is driven by the fragmentation of our identity and who or what we think we are. “Collapsing New People” is a series of digital collage portrait images that examine the form, nature and content of that crisis. 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 These are rejected as outdated and representative of a colonial, racialised, patriarchal, and socio-political hierarchies framed withing a capitalist paradigm.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.