Andy King
Andy King is a digital media artist whose often satirical and political works focus on internet subcultures and themes of loneliness and human relationships in a digital age. She explores life as part of the first generation which experienced popular culture through the internet — the blurring of distinctions between truth and fiction, copy and original, private and public spaces. Based in Berlin, King works with found images and videos, photographing and manipulating them repeatedly in a way that mimics how information is disseminated and distorted online.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose (Short-term Project) — Summer 2016
Hero with a Thousand Faces
Aura — Winter 2016
IAE_Haikus
Aura — Winter 2016
My Very Own Personal Louvre
Aura — Winter 2016
There Are No Girls On The Internet
Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium — Summer 2018
Wish I Weren't Here
Carte Blanche — Winter 2018
Yves Klein Jigsaw Puzzle
Aura — Winter 2016
Andy King — Wish I Weren't Here
Carte Blanche — Winter 2018
A series of five photographic montages portraying the desire to be somewhere else. Unreal depictions of distant places are superimposed with mundane, everyday objects that make us wish we were far away. Cold office lights, a single toothbrush, vitamin D pills, soap, a parking street sign, a drab corridor light switch and coat hangers clash with paradisiacal landscapes reminiscent of stock photography. When we daydream, our daydreams bear close resemblance to stock images. Imaginary landscapes are static, simplified, artificial, smooth. Real landscapes are complex, unpredictable, intense. If we successfully escape our day-to-day, our imaginary landscapes are confronted with reality, and we find ourselves missing the comforts of the familiar mundane. The perfect location is never the one we are currently inhabiting. [ aludibond prints with custom attachments / 70x100cm ]
