robert waters
Location: Toronto/Canada
Categories

Activism, Conceptual, Drawing, Intervention, Other, Sound

Website

www.robertwaters.ca

Wooloo Url

http://www.wooloo.org/stealwaters

About

My practice is a study of our ongoing evolution in post-industrial society, focusing on changing social and epistemological structures in order to examine the process of human domestication. My work explores biological imperatives and our desire to transcend them, concentrating on perceived divisions of body and mind, and related ideas of control and freedom. Comprised primarily of drawing series and installations, my projects investigate themes of male sexuality, violence and mortality to demonstrate our conflicted connections with nature.

 

As my investigation focuses on the physical human body in relation to thought, my artworks in turn emphasize a connection of formal and conceptual relationships. While often produced using traditional techniques, my projects incorporate common, ephemeral materials that specifically reference their visual content or thematic context. In addition to using materials with known connotations, the alteration of appropriated objects and images is a common aspect of my methodology. More recently I have been exploring the use of specific demographics in the creation and execution of projects.

 

In exploring personal and social themes my projects embody political motives in defence of difference towards equality, intending to provoke a questioning of self-knowledge and social control. On physical and conceptual levels my work uses change to demonstrate instability and exemplify free will. I believe it is important to realize that change is not only inevitable but essential to our existence and survival as a species.

 

Exhibitions

Conceptual Art Works...

Toronto/Canada

Activism, Conceptual, Drawing, Intervention, Other, Sound

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