Dustin Voggenreiter.
Metro Arts
Metro Arts
Artist Statement
‘Panopticon’ explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us – As creatures born with perceptions geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic reality we inhabit.
Concealment within this work poetically eludes to the gaps in our species ability to understand reality. This idea extends from Plato’s famous cave shadow allegory (500+ BCE) to avant-garde theories proposed by Cognitive Psychologist Dr Donald Hoffman, all of which highlight the inadequacy of human perception.
The monotony inherent in the GIF format channels the looping, unresolved nature of these ideas. We are, in essence, trapped.
About the artists
Dustin J Voggenreiter, b 1983, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Dustin J Voggenreiter is an artist who communes with ancestral spirits, sharing a deep
empathy for the human condition. His practice spans contemporary abstraction, digital
animation and sculpture, with an aesthetic bent towards monochromatic minimalism.
Dustin’s works are at once pleasurable explorations of texture and colour, as well as being a meditation on the invisible forces underlying human nature. He has recently graduated from the MFA program at RMIT, has begun exhibiting at galleries throughout Australia, and has completed the Situate Residency during the first half of 2022.
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