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Artist Dash Snow, contemporary art
For Dash Snow, the photography becomes a way of engaging with the environment and memory. Each snapshot captures a place, time, and emotion, freezing and the definition of the individual components of everyday experience, mapping out the development an identity. Using a Polaroid camera for instant results and association, keeping sakes, family photo format reproduces the feelings Snow their images: Memories cheap, disposable, and commoners evidence ruled humble beauty.
Documenting your life through a lens, the photographs snow to explore personal existence as a periphery of the globalized culture. The submission of a summary account of his marginal lifestyle, often images of Snow unpleasant paint an intimate portrait where topical issues such as sex, drugs, poverty, and anti-social behavior from a position facing Frank personal involvement. Translated by generic quality of their environment, pictures of Snow transmit the fragments of memory as disoriented watching voyeur design the experience of "I" as a bi-product of the mass media dissociation.
Illustrating the underbelly of contemporary culture Snow veritas distances with film images. Graffiti, broken ironically signaling sexual romps seedy hotel, and cases of despair not evoke human empathy, but rather suggest a poetic affirmation of humanity and survival against all odds.
Untitled Snow Script (Thong) reworks images of pornography, violence, glamor and a totem of power vanished. Recalling the optimistic ideology Suprematist design, Snow presents a collage of futuristic icon emblems degenerate. Mounted on a wall paper background mundane, photocopied pieces of syringes, gems, rodents, parts of machines and background merge into an abstract figure of the cyborg, a goddess of bravery nasty underclass. Read the full article Dash Snow-Saatchi Gallery
About the Author
View Dash Snow paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Dash Snow artist. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery – London Contemporary Art Gallery. Dash Snow
FACE 2 FACE (500 self portraits)