| Statement: The Post Referendum Portraits.
We now live in a Post Truth world, and for many these times seem fearful and
full of uncertainty. In
the age of post globalisation and neoliberal ideologies there seems to be
little respite from the social and political assault from those who we would
normally look to and seek guidance and leadership from. Our continuing Brexit (mis)adventure
(and, in the USA the presidency of Donald Trump) has highlighted the
breakdown in our ability to construct the requisite social narratives
required to form and be part of any cogent, functional, and vibrant
society/community. This goes
right across to board from an individual experience of self to a collective,
social one. Our leaders now use
democracy as an exercise in nostalgia with the political imagination
paralysed and its future cancelled indefinitely. The identity project is in need of constant updating, yet
the effort required to make these changes precludes any change from actually
taking place. A crisis in
identity ensues. The Post Referendum Portraits seek to articulate the nature
of that crisis. They create a
layered, multifaceted experience of subjectivity in a world where what lies
beneath the veneer of reality is the true nature of identity in a post truth
world. |
Spectre of the Real 