One Horse Landed
Book & Poster Wraparound
21W x 26H cm
Offset-litho
40 pages printed on 120gsm Munken Lynx Rough
Saddle stitched with black wire
Winner, 2024 Belfast Photo Festival International Open Call
£25
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Also available at Setanta Books
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Does AI present a world of endless possibility, or a dark and unavoidable end-time for art as we know it? In One Horse Landed, collaboration between artist and machine is recontextualised as a vehicle for wonder, wit and surrealism – a tool with which to interrogate the boundaries of artistic expression.
The narrative thread in the work begins with horses, but quickly disentangles itself from the real world. Equine forms devolve, horse and rider metamorphosing into what might be alien lifeforms. A piebald pattern kaleidoscopes outwards. Fragments of parts from industrial machinery seem to rise up from the darkness, exposing broken cables and foam piled up in a surreal underground world. Slowly, this cast of unfamiliar figures becomes one with its new terrain.
Within this otherworldly landscape, the viewer finds themselves not only challenging their perception of familiar forms, but also delving into the realm of a speculative future. Human nature compels us to cling to the recognisable, and it is the tension that comes from this searching that spotlights my true subject: the complex choreography between the human imagination and machine interference.
