Josephine Flynn

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Statement
My practice critiques the language of consumer culture. The process of how constructs, hierarchies and classifications work together to legitimatize and produce meaning. I’m interested in how society uses the notion of freedom and how popular culture positions the self and how the self wants to be positioned.

Within in my work I use and manipulate consumer symbols from celebrities such as President Bush to Hitler to banal everyday objects such as pens, nurofen tablets and tin foil shaped like shit. I want to use the process of transgression to deconstruct these symbols and play with the construct of freedom that is offered in our culture as an act of control.

Selected Curriculum Vitae
Spectator T, Art Sheffield 05, various venues, Sheffield
Zoo Art Fair, London Zoo, London
Open Frequency, www.axisweb.org, click on open frequency. Open Frequency is a curated on-line programme presenting new developments in contemporary art. Curated by Liz Aston
A Ten Point Plan for a Better Cornerhouse - Poster Project Commission, (20th Anniversary for the Cornerhouse), Cornerhouse, Manchester
Testbed 3 Film Night, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
New Contemporaries 05, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Spike Island & LOT, Bristol, Barbican Curve, London
Now Then, Now Then, International 3, Manchester

Contact

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