Emma Tod
www.emmatod.com
@emmatod1
Statement:
Ludic and Ipse are part of a series of works that examine how contemporary painting might establish a conversations around the medium itself in relation to digital technologies and raise questions about to whom and to what we ascribe value. The starting points for this series include my own photographs, often taken whilst walking at night in South London, images from the internet, newspapers, journals and art historical references.
I am interested in how we inhabit our environment, how it makes us feel and in turn how we affect the spaces and places we move through. Elements from the source material are combined, erased and re painted. Material from the edge or periphery is brought to the centre, and moved again to the edge and so the subject or starting points begin to recede (and return) to the surface, and questions about the unpredictable nature of colour and of painting itself are foregrounded.
The images explore uncertainty, rupture and the possibility change. I wonder what change might look like at a microscopic, cellular or imaginary level. As well as a referencing chance, playfulness and Bataille’s “not knowing” the titles include the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere on the day the paintings are completed.
www.emmatod.com
@emmatod1
Statement:
Ludic and Ipse are part of a series of works that examine how contemporary painting might establish a conversations around the medium itself in relation to digital technologies and raise questions about to whom and to what we ascribe value. The starting points for this series include my own photographs, often taken whilst walking at night in South London, images from the internet, newspapers, journals and art historical references.
I am interested in how we inhabit our environment, how it makes us feel and in turn how we affect the spaces and places we move through. Elements from the source material are combined, erased and re painted. Material from the edge or periphery is brought to the centre, and moved again to the edge and so the subject or starting points begin to recede (and return) to the surface, and questions about the unpredictable nature of colour and of painting itself are foregrounded.
The images explore uncertainty, rupture and the possibility change. I wonder what change might look like at a microscopic, cellular or imaginary level. As well as a referencing chance, playfulness and Bataille’s “not knowing” the titles include the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere on the day the paintings are completed.
Ludic-419.8ppm
30 x 25cm Oil on linen 2022 |
Ipse_419.68ppm
30 x 25cm Oil on linen 2022 |