Kristian Fracchia

 

Conventional maps can do no more than point the way to unpredictable, individual experience, while artworks can embody those experiences. I believe my work steers away from the conventional map and embodies such experience. These works could be seen as a biography of self and a mundane representation or map of lived experience. They are a study of the specific effects of a geographical environment on the emotions and behaviour of individuals. This group of unnamed, passive people are dislocated and evolved into a fully aware, anarchistic collection via this process.

This concept that I have been investigating has just briefly touched on the theories and concepts of Karl Marx and Guy Debord whom are linked to the Situationist International movement.

Kristian Fracchia, Transience (#6) 2013, Pencil on 245gsm Stonehenge paper, 47.4 x 40.5cm