Ed Fornieles: Modern Family, 19 Sep 2014 — 09 Nov 2014
Exhibitions

Ed Fornieles: Modern Family

A major new body of work by Ed Fornieles (b.1983, Petersfield) will be presented a Chisenhale Gallery in London.

“Modern Family” skews the material logic of home improvement, sitcom architecture and the shopping mall, taking us on a journey to a distant yet familiar suburban land.

Fornieles is now based both in London and L.A. A new online work forms the basis of the commission and will be presented alongside sculpture and performance within an ambitious installation environment.

He is interested in the family as a device for the replication and perpetuation of social norms. Fornieles creates exhibitions and performances that enact a collapse between online and offline spaces. Central to his exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, the new website uses search terms to draw on live content, aggregating news feeds and social media profiles in real time, as stories unfold and people interact online.

Fornieles utilises the huge amounts of freely available personal and public data feeding our attention economy, where value is determined by likes, shares and reposts. Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter and Google generate a shifting backdrop to the installation; one which is ever-contemporary and continuously updated, sustained by new trends, current events and personal lives.

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