An edited archived video of Art Brunch S2E6 with artist and fine art photographer Chloe Simmons, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on twitch
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About The Travel Agency:
The Travel Agency is a digitally native platform that hosts contemporary art making, produces art-centered entertainment, and will be providing digital residencies for emerging artists. The goal of Art Brunch is to broaden public interest and support for the arts, provide digital tools and expertise to emerging artists, and present contemporary art in a casual and accessible manner.
About Chloe:
I was born in 1996 in St. Louis MO. BFA in Printmaking from Webster University and I am currently working on my MFA in 4D at UW Madison.
Artist Statement:
There’s something about all of this constant chaos; everything happening
simultaneously all the time that feels so mundane. Like it has always been there. Like it
is supposed to be there. Another everyday spectacle. Truth is as liquid as the past, and
with a little heat facts and moments seem to quickly evaporate; forever lost to time.
The work is not occupied with truth. The work maintains the grey area - cozy in the
warm comfort of contradiction and chaos; you can always count on those guys. You
know them when you see them. They have always been there. Concrete in their
negation of the ideologies and infrastructures we idealize as the backbone of our
civilization.
The artwork is often uncomfortable but reaches for the familiar. My lipgloss is too tacky
and my tennis shoes slightly pinch my baby toe. Humor is crucial in uncomfortable
situations. Fetish is everywhere. The work is a product of the internet; often constructed
using various systems of production and bits of digital debris, information, media, and
material leaving their impression to be inspected, questioned, interpreted and
synthesized.
The resulting artwork is often in the form of an object, consumer product, fashion, video
or some combination of these; moving from one idea to the other tethered by thin
conceptual strands. It’s all right there. If it were a snake it woulda bit ya.
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