[echo] hinterconti 13.06. | Ryan Watkins-Hughes

[Michael Thomas]

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Freitag | 13. Juni 2008 | Ryan Watkins-Hughes : 
"Nett ist die kleine Schwester von Scheiße"



Ryan Watkins-Hughes (New York)
"Nett ist die kleine Schwester von Scheiße"



Ryan Watkins-Hughes creates photography-based 
installations and public interventions
that relate geographic space and personal 
narrative to pervasive media experiments.
The works act as personal pneumonic devices, 
reviving vivid memories of seemingly simple,
commonplace moments. Like sorting through a box 
of memories, he depicts a stubbornly beautiful,
but ultimately futile, attempt to hold on as time 
slips by. Grids within grids of images are used
as cellular building blocks within the larger art 
form and the final works frequently combine
photography, drawing, web-based art and public 
installations. Individual photographs capture
the personality of place through the 
documentation of architecture and 'everyday' 
moments.
Employing nonlinear combinations of these 
photographs to create composite works,
he 'remixes' the traditional structure of time. 
The timeframe is collapsed for the viewer,
as though watching stills from a film 
simultaneously, thus leaving narrative connections
between each moment open for the imagination to explore and invent.



Born in Atlanta, GA, Ryan Watkins-Hughes is a New York-based artist
and photographer. He earned a BFA from Pratt Institute where he was
granted the 2001 Senior Travel Award. Continuing his work in
photography and seeking news ways to innovate the medium, he was
awarded the KBFUS Grant for travel to Belgium in 2003 and a SIM Artist
Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2007. In August of 2008,
Watkins-Hughes will begin a teaching fellowship, while pursuing an MFA
in Digital Studio Art at Tulane University.

In 2003, he created the project SHOPDROPPING, which entails altering
the packaging of canned goods before "shopdropping" them back into
supermarkets. Watkins-Hughes exhibits throughout the Americas and
Europe and has been featured in The New York Times, The London Times
Magazine, Folha de S.Paulo, CBS NEWS, WNYC, NPR and cnn.com; his work
is also featured in The Art of Rebellion 2 by Christian Hundertmark,
and the documentary film To Be Seen by Alice Arnold. The legal
implications of the SHOPDROPPING project were recently analyzed in the
Washington University Law Review.

www.watkinshughes.com
www.shopdropping.net

Eröffnung:  Fr 13. Juni 2008 | 20.00 h






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