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David Diviney: Hollow

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Diviney’s recent installations find connections between the structures of our cultural allegories and the material language of sculpture. His work—loosely based in traditions of assemblage, additive/subtractive construction and found objects—locates a unique connotative resonance in banal, yet

HOLLOW presents a sculptural and photographic array that draws on a decidedly pastoral vernacular of folk-art and back-woods building, pioneer tales and foundational myths. Comprised of familiar household and consumer products—socks, balaclavas, buckets and low-grade renovation supplies—Diviney’s installation detects an uncanny, humourous, and at times menacing subtext to our often-ignored, gentrified surroundings. His objects and appropriated imagery illicit both the pleasures and pitfalls of the survivalist imagination, the can-do spirit of frontier ingenuity and the deeply psychological weight of physical isolation. As such, HOLLOW conflates our typical lexicons of the rural, creating a perceptually baffling environment that speaks to the ever-evolving barter between civilization and wilderness, community and self-reliance, as well as the continuing weight of this discourse on the popular imagination.

Pages: 24

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre

Release: May 14, 2022

ISBN: 0978216512

ISBN 13: 0978216512

David Diviney: Hollow

0/5 ( ratings)

Diviney’s recent installations find connections between the structures of our cultural allegories and the material language of sculpture. His work—loosely based in traditions of assemblage, additive/subtractive construction and found objects—locates a unique connotative resonance in banal, yet

HOLLOW presents a sculptural and photographic array that draws on a decidedly pastoral vernacular of folk-art and back-woods building, pioneer tales and foundational myths. Comprised of familiar household and consumer products—socks, balaclavas, buckets and low-grade renovation supplies—Diviney’s installation detects an uncanny, humourous, and at times menacing subtext to our often-ignored, gentrified surroundings. His objects and appropriated imagery illicit both the pleasures and pitfalls of the survivalist imagination, the can-do spirit of frontier ingenuity and the deeply psychological weight of physical isolation. As such, HOLLOW conflates our typical lexicons of the rural, creating a perceptually baffling environment that speaks to the ever-evolving barter between civilization and wilderness, community and self-reliance, as well as the continuing weight of this discourse on the popular imagination.

Pages: 24

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre

Release: May 14, 2022

ISBN: 0978216512

ISBN 13: 0978216512

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