Skip to main content

Prelude

By  Joe Duffy 2008

Joe Duffy

Prelude, depicts the banal functioning of a car wash machine from the point of view of a passenger, an experience that relates the teleogical aspect of society with the mimetic harnessing of nature in an act of simulation, the car wash as metaphorical journey through hyperreality. Using the title of 'Prelude,' the reference to Wordsworth's poetry and associative links to romanticism and the Sublime are evident.
Veywu0ex1uannu2litcsdg Joe Duffy

Block

Žižkov Pan

Senen

Join Axis

We support artists

Funding, visibility, connection and practical help. 

Membership includes £15 million of Public Liability Insurance!

Axis is an independent charity, funded by our members. 
Become a Member

OPEN: £50,000 directly to artists.

Axis Artist Awards 2026

The Axis Artist Awards support artists to develop their practice, test ideas, make work and keep going. 

Learn more