Carbon Date - Ken Sandӧ

Ken Sandӧ - Artist Statement

"The artworks in the exhibition Carbon Date are a continuation of a project that I have been working through for the last twenty years. They are part of my art lexicon that is evolving and deepening through this drawn out exploratory process.

Each individual piece of work is imbued with traces of the overarching concepts that drive my art making, all a small part, yet essential elements of the ‘grand narrative’.

Driven by an ongoing fascination with the construction and polemics of figurative and representational art and the perceptions of both the artist and viewer to the made image; this is how I would describe the main motivation behind my art making.

Looking for, and at, what is considered normal or everyday, then questioning why it is, prompts my desire for creatively trying to demystify the normative. Through this process of conceptualisation I usually try to twist the accepted forms of normative constructs by introducing through my imagery fanciful paradoxical fabrications.

Those never-ending questions I have about imagery and perceptions of reality; Liminal identity and constructed identity. Questions of gender and sexualities. What defines normative and what doesn’t. The space between, around, beyond, aside, from the conventional Life… This is what prompts me." - Ken Sandӧ

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