In the near future, the technology of life spews forth its entrails while the technology of death watches.
Incarceration rather than freedom, violence not peace, mass movements against the individual, victimhood and surveillance against self-determination and privacy.
Darkness, rather than light.
These are Dee Taylor's imaginative themes. Like Tate Modern's recent turbine hall exhibition "TH.2058" by French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Taylor's paintings draw on the literature and films of futuristic dystopias, but brings the vision closer to our present time. As the social and architectural infrastructure crumbles, the technology of domination, surveillance and control increases exponentially. This is the great irony of progress depicted in large, powerful canvases that initially dominate the viewer in a way that parallels the imagined tyrannies of the near future.
Charcoal drawing - 200cm x 80cm. Please note the large size.
