Still In The Garden
Colin Coutts
Still In The Garden was created in the artist's own East-End, London garden. It considers how perception is coloured by previously ingested imagery. Based around the concept of the slideshow, the work explores reality, simulacra and spectacle.
Contemporary western society is now unable to view anything other than through the lens of a previously mediated memory. Life is no longer experienced first-hand, but as a diluted version of a fictitious other. Doing has been replaced by watching and emulation. Reality has been taken hostage by fantasy and simulation. The virtual is embraced in preference to the actual. Experience is now relative not absolute, and is measured against the yardstick of the screened image. It is the screened image that now illuminates the gloom of contemporary life, offering a beacon for contentment but acting merely as a votive to the shrine of consumption.
From his architectural background, Coutts recycles the building blocks of light, space and form for use in his image-making. More recently, the possibilities of digital capture triggered his transition from creator to recorder of environments. Coutts currently works in photography, video and digital technology. He recently completed his MA Photographic Studies at University of Westminster in September 2010.
http://www.colincoutts.com/
Colin Coutts
Still In The Garden was created in the artist's own East-End, London garden. It considers how perception is coloured by previously ingested imagery. Based around the concept of the slideshow, the work explores reality, simulacra and spectacle.
Contemporary western society is now unable to view anything other than through the lens of a previously mediated memory. Life is no longer experienced first-hand, but as a diluted version of a fictitious other. Doing has been replaced by watching and emulation. Reality has been taken hostage by fantasy and simulation. The virtual is embraced in preference to the actual. Experience is now relative not absolute, and is measured against the yardstick of the screened image. It is the screened image that now illuminates the gloom of contemporary life, offering a beacon for contentment but acting merely as a votive to the shrine of consumption.
From his architectural background, Coutts recycles the building blocks of light, space and form for use in his image-making. More recently, the possibilities of digital capture triggered his transition from creator to recorder of environments. Coutts currently works in photography, video and digital technology. He recently completed his MA Photographic Studies at University of Westminster in September 2010.
http://www.colincoutts.com/
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