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Phil Toy
detail of Real Slides—
» I am interested
in how we categorise things in a wider context of beliefs within
a contemporary 'rational' structure. It's about how we perceive
things - if I believe something to have certain properties then
I will classify it accordingly - and raises questions to do with
our relationship with 'reality'. «
Phil Toy is mainly concerned with how we perceive and order knowledge,
demonstrated in how we display things. By showing his slides on
a light box Toy plays with our expectations, tricking our mind into
believing that what we see is only the miniature of what we are
meant to see. In reality though, the images are elaborate pictures
made by compressing pieces of news clippings in clear resin. This
questions the confidence of our perception of things familiar to
us, and forces the viewer to rethink.
Our reaction to this concealment becomes an integral part of the
work and makes the piece interactive. The chosen motifs add another
level to the exploration of originality, since many of the human
forms chosen derive from effigies of classical models used by other
artists.
EG
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