PLASTIC FLOWERS - Marina de Stacpoole

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Caroline Hick writes: The socio-political themes running through London-based de Stacpoole's large scale digital prints, play on notions of fictional and real-life narratives through the rhetoric of her source material. de Stacpoole's digital collages intersperse contrasting references to film and TV, rural landscape imagery and avatar sites, to create a hyper-real world which explores our relationship to warfare and our experience of the world through the mediated reality of the entertainment industry. The bitter-sweet nature of her eye-candy scenarios reveals there is more at play than first appears on the surface.