Video: Knives, accidents and blood sewn from fabric
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The theme of Craig Fisher's sculptural installations is quite destructive and terrifying: car accidents, cold and firearms, pools of blood … It doesn't sound very attractive, but in fact there is nothing to be afraid of, because all these works - including blood - are sewn from fabrics.
The main themes of Craig Fischer's installations are issues of cruelty, violence, catastrophe and stereotypes of masculinity. “I work with fabrics due to the fact that this material provides a huge space for various associations,” says the author. Craig uses textiles, which are usually associated with femininity, to depict traditionally "masculine" objects and thus asks the viewer the question: what criteria are used to define masculine and feminine? And yet, although the author himself does not mention this, the conclusion suggests itself: soft knives, axes, machine guns in the literal sense of the word - what else is this if not a protest against cruelty and violence?
According to Craig Fisher, in his works he likes to balance on the brink: between high and low culture, truth and fiction, art and craft, functionality and dysfunction, masculinity and femininity. “I would like to hope,” the author notes, “that the viewer will perceive this state“between”as a challenge to his usual perception.”
Craig Fisher was born in 1976 and lives and works in Nottingham and London. In 2000, the author received his Master of Fine Arts degree, graduating with honors from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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