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Michelle Marie Forrest

Bristol
Artist and researcher.
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My practice centres around the promise of ‘a scattered methodology’; a constellation of thoughts, processes, images, objects and practices, wherein, referential relationships between things can be contemplated and worked with.

In response to the burden of infinite, industrialised, machinic connectedness {the network, social media, digital communication} which does not necessarily equal real connection, I draw attention to disconnectedness through the physicality of editing processes and seemingly random systems of human interpretation.

Reconfiguring objects and images, including, but not limited to, material from film, music, poetry, literature and theory, I am curious to see if things can be transfigured into other things, causing disruptions and new forms of connection.

I think of my approach as ‘psycho-techno-archaeological’, essentially a ‘mashup’ of technical methods and processes {active listening, remixing, association} that I use to bring together to rethink and rearrange fragments of things. 

Considering matters which range from the deeply personal to the existential or the universal {broken hearts, financial instability, identity crises, our place within the cosmos, the prospect of a multiverse} I process these considerations, as a form of material to be worked with. What emerges is often simultaneously both a celebration and a shattering of the tenuous relationships between things.

 

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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