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Still, Life.
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Still, Life. is a cookbook by British artist Joe Sweeney.The book meditates on both the daily restrictions of the 2020 pandemic and tradition of still life in art.Contrasted within Still, Life. is Sweeney’s personal experience of domestic isolation and his photographic ballad to his native London,a city under lockdown.The artist’s candid iPhone photography of handwritten signs by absent shopkeepers in Brixton merge with his series of ceramics.Works staged to subvert the aesthetics and symbols of traditional still life painting.The recipes use local market ingredients. Their simplicity designed to encourage culinary self-sufficiency, and perhaps even rehabilitate your take away addiction.
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“Amongst all this uncertainty one thing is for sure…almost any dish in this book will eventually find its way between two slices of bread.”
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Joe Sweeney (b. 1991, London).Joe Sweeney is a conceptual artist working with a visual language created through British idiosyncrasies, everyday references and the banal commenting on our fast changing times by elevating the throw away. Through quick observation, the artist encourages a pause for thought on the daily interactions that we don’t always pay attention to. Playing with Britain’s passion for nostalgia, Sweeney often creates morbid but humorous work through sculpture, print, installation and video work.In 2019, Sweeney launched ‘+44 leave a Message for Europe’ - a public, part digital and part physical project supported by Arts Council England. The interactive project centred around live webcam stream of a sculpture of a telephone box installed on Dungeness beach, Kent. An international public were invited to call the sculpture online, no matter what their opinion, and leave their voice messages for Europe during the 28 day lead up to Britain’s original departure date from the European Union. Since then, Sweeney’s work focuses on an exploration of the tumultuous socio-political landscape of Britain.
Joe Sweeney: Still Life
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