The Limits Of Control
Solo Exhibition
Modern Times
Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia
August 1 – August 11
2019
Calling attention to the fragility of idealised ‘perfect systems’ in technology, The Limits of Control identifies concerns surrounding our dependence on digital systems and how we, as humans, navigate questions of ultimate control and reliability. This refined new sculptural work from Taj Alexander seeks to illuminate the implications of malfunction in the digital-information age through his own complex negotiation with the interrupted image.
Digital systems are now deeply interwoven within our socio-psychological spheres. How we share and contextualise information is governed and interpreted through the limits of technology. The loss of control in this digitally dependent age poses a frustrating yet very real limitation on our ability to negotiate the power we attribute to such systems.
The Limits Of Control attempts to illustrate this fragility by exploring the way in which we have adapted a disrupted digital landscape into our culture as a means to humanise and further crystallise our concerns. The artist presents an arresting dialogue between the interrupted form and abstracted imagery. The resulting objects are seemingly simple yet clearly complex in their composition and physical manifestation.
Photography - Nicole Reed
