Alex Frost

De kunst van Alex Frost (UK, 1973)  legt een geoptimaliseerd en energiek leven ‘onderweg’ vast. Of het nu gaat om het maken van objecten voor een galerie of het produceren van video’s voor online circulatie, in het leven dat hij inkapselt, regeert de consumptie.

Alex Frost is een kunstenaar uit Londen. Hij exposeerde op de Biënnale van Venetië in 2009, Tate (St Ives), Catriona Jefferies Gallery (Vancouver), The Modern Institute (Glasgow), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Milton Keynes Gallery, Studio Voltaire (Londen), Fruitmarket (Edinburgh), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Kunstbuero (Wenen) en Frieze Sculpture Park (Londen). Huidige show: 2020 Unboxing Alex Frost, FirstSite, Colchester.

It re-presents the world as a warehouse of potential objects of consumption, and individual life as a perpetual search for bargains; its purpose is presented as maximal consumer satisfaction, and life success as an increase in each individual’s own market value. Zygmunt Bauman, Happiness in a society of individuals (2008).


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