Category: Art
Cave by Jess Littlewood, 2012
Riffing on our fondness for all things triangular and sci-fi influenced Jess Littlewood's intriguing collages juxtapose imagery to create new worlds. Her artwork first caught my attention at the London Art Fair earlier this year, and for this exhibition she continues to explore the same theme. This time her photorealism is stepped up a further notch, with the simplicity of images like the one above suggesting a very possible reality, even as they have been staged by her clever manipulations.
The End of Now by Jess Littlewood, 2012.
Here's the official blurb:
The Contemporary London presents Future Plans, a solo exhibition of new works by British artist Jess Littlewood. Littlewood creates complex, eerily beautiful and otherworldly imagined landscapes from an archive of collected images. These images are manipulated to create landscapes where the struggles and tribulations of human kind are tested and the tumultuous will of nature will be played out. The transient settlers in these landscapes remain unseen, yet the footprint of absence alludes to signs of human determination, cult-like and ritualistic behaviour, broken down hierarchies and a struggle for Utopia.
This newest body of work marks an apocalyptic end and a brave new beginning. Triangles of psychedelic colour illuminate the night skies, cutting shards of light through darkness, shining a fleeting light on the new. As the monochromatic is consumed by colour, glimpses of survival and hope appear, alluding to a new alternative way of life, perhaps one that accepts its own limitations, and suggests a purer existence alongside nature. Future Plans continues to question the strength of our belief systems, their continual place in human society and our intrinsic human desire to understand our own existence.
The Watch by Jess Littlewood, 2012.
For more information see the Future Plans event page.
Private View: Thursday 1 November 2012, 6-10pm.
Opening Times: Friday & Saturday 10-6pm, Sunday 10-5.30pm