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Michelle Marie Forrest

Bristol
Artist and researcher.

My practice revolves around a scattered methodology—a constellation of texts, images, objects, and processes—in which I orbit the impact of interconnected structural forces and the psychological reorientation needed to comprehend things that feel impossible to touch upon directly.

In response to the seamless flow of algorithmic curation, I explore the friction between wide-ranging matters, which I process as matter: from the intimacy of a broken heart to systemic financial instability and existential collapse. I define this approach as psycho-techno-archaeological: a mashup that requires active attention to tune into the idiosyncrasies existing where different worlds collide. In this space, weighted architectural fragments and weightless digital snippets converge, reverberating between an archaeological past and a techno-future, wherein digital excavations expose the hidden tensions of our technological lives.

Working with the permeability of boundaries—where porosity describes the ease with which thoughts, external influences, and emotions circulate—my work exists in flux, manifesting as matters of dispute that oscillate between clinical detachment and emotional spillover. While no individual object offers a final answer, collectively they move from object to system, forming propositions in which the fragmented nature of lived experience and the systems that shape it are simultaneously celebrated and shattered.

 

Moratoriums

Blind Faith

Kalopsia

Concentrate: Pistoletto’s Infinity Cube

Love by Proxy: Matters of the Heart & Mind, Episode I

Love by Proxy: Diagrammatic Drawing Series (9 of 52)

{a violent intersection}

A Series of One Liners (recto / verso)

We Are Only Partly Real (Zones 1,2 & 3, Night Cycle)

We Are Only Partly Real (Zone 2, Day Cycle)

We Are Only Partly Real (Zone 1, Night Cycle)

We Are Only Partly Real (Zone 1, Day Cycle)

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