Contact detailsname: Aaron Lowry email: noraalowry@gmail.com phone: 0860540948 |
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HE MAY WEAR A MOUSTACHE.My work is based on a language where thoughts, facts and theories are organised accurately and neutrally. I typically engage with traditional modes of drawing such as pencil on paper and often work in a collective series of multiple images. This method of production lends to the predominately analytical and documentary quality of my work. My current project seeks to interrogate and question the official modes of visual identification used to verify an individual’s fact of being or identity. The imagery I have selected to base my drawings upon is derived from the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, most of whom display the stereotypical facial features of individuals from the Middle East. It also seems striking, even completely absurd that the accompanying written descriptions of each Terrorist provided by the FBI could easily be applied to any individual, for example many of the suspects are described as ‘wearing a moustache.’ The compositional structure of each drawing directly references the impact of Physiognomy, the defunct study of judging a character from facial features, on the way that composite drawings and images are constructed for use by government agencies in the USA such as the FBI. Such generalisations in the written descriptions and in the manner that visual identities are constructed seem completely arbitrary. It is within this context, that of artificially constructing a visual representation of an identity that may or may not exist, that directs the enquiry and logic of the work. Website: www.aaronlowry.wordpress.com |
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