Artist Statement and Project Proposal
My final statement
George Hughes (°1998, London, United Kingdom) makes photos and media art. By choosing mainly formal solutions, Hughes tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
His photos establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multi-layered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned.
His photos establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multi-layered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned.
My Project Proposal (December 2014)
I have decided to base my project on the same Artist Jem Southam. The reason why I would like to focus this project on Jem Southam is a photographer who bases his work around landscape photography which is the photography I enjoy the most. Jem Southam also does work looking at subtle changes in the British countryside which I think is very interesting. He does this by filming a certain area of his choosing for a long period of time. For this project I'm going to be focusing on Urban landscape photography