Categories
Architecture, Conceptual, Installation, Intervention, Mixed Media, Other, Painting, Video
Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helidon_Gjergji
Wooloo Url
http://www.wooloo.org/hgjergji
About
My work deals with the illusion of boundaries and discrete identities. In the past, I have worked on the pervasiveness of ideology--both visible, permutated and invisible--in contemporary Western society and the post-Communist world.
More recently, I have been creating non-figurative paintings, by abstracting media images. I have created environments in which the images of live television were reflected and refracted in a variety of ways to produce kaleidoscopic abstract paintings that are meant to dazzle the viewer with their colors while exposing the morphology of television programming. My abstract media landscapes are often accompanied by a cacophonous soundtrack of multiple live programs that reduce the media's message to a tower of Babel. In sum, my media paintings tend to be ambitious, critical and yet refreshingly ironic: they espouse the transformative aims of modernism without the dogmas of its faith, subverting the ends of the media while staging our own entrapment, if not the exteriorization of our selves, in its enveloping world of simulacra. In this sense, my work both acknowledges and importantly gets beyond the modernism of a Nam June Paik and of a Marshall McCluhan to at once unveil and celebrate our reification in the heady aesthetic swirl of the mediascape.
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