Nick Gentry's Repurposed Film Negatives Create New Identities In 'Synthetic Dreams'
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British artist Nick Gentry exhibits a new series of portraits titled ‘Synthetic Dreams’ at Miami’s Robert Fontaine Gallery from Nov 8-Nov 26, 2014. In his latest works, Gentry showcases a series of collage paintings 35 mm film negatives and X-rays on glass.
A graduate of the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, Gentry’s techniques represent a reversal of traditional portraiture. The artist takes a deep dive into identity with repurposed technology such as floppy discs or — in the case of ‘Synthetic Dreams’ film negatives — Gentry uses these outdated technology artifacts to speak to the collective nature of identity.
Gentry questions the fundamental relationship of the “human being” to both the created world and what we call reality. The space which art identifies becomes places where new behaviors, thoughts and feelings can arise. via
