Dream Home: Art by Anthony Discenza

by Nathan Walpow

Revisiting some housing-related art we’ve featured in the past ...

Between the relentless spread of consumerism and the rapid advancement of technology, we find ourselves exposed to ever-greater amounts of visual stimuli. In the constant battle for viewer attention, more and more of our information arrives in the form of elaborately manipulated visual sequences formally and structurally indistinguishable from mass entertainment. The result is a profound level of alienation, a gradual poisoning of our own experience as the logic of the spectacle colonizes our own internal narratives.

Artist Anthony Discenza finds this situation both fascinating and deeply problematic, and is particularly concerned with the violence which informs our media over-exposure. His work attempts to expose this violence while acknowledging its seductive, anaesthetizing force. Working mainly with visual material appropriated from commercial film and television, he looks for ways to collapse media imagery into itself, to arrest it within a moment of simultaneous destruction and reification, trying to uncover layers of meaning not apparent in the original context.

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