Sunshine & Grease

“My work is based around bringing together disparate visual languages to investigate the space that is created by their juxtaposition. When two seemingly opposing visual languages (such as representation and abstraction for instance) are brought together the limiting contextual boundaries of each system is broken down and a new contextual space is created. The intention is not to come to a midway point or reconciliation, but rather to look into what philosopher Slavoj Zizek refers to as the ‘Parallax Gap’- that space created by the imposed crossing of two incompatible readings (of a subject). This space is not a negative void, but rather holds a more comprehensive understanding of the subject, in the same way that the parallax gap between our eyes gives us the ability to see in three dimensions. In ‘The Dream of Rooms’ by pitting structured ‘rational’ perspective against subjective abstract gestures I want to explore an unexpected and pregnant resulting visual space.”

—Petr Zly