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the map. By scrutinising its pictures, its schedules and its games, she becomes obsessed, creating rituals in its destruction while addicted to its potential for transcendence.
Or so it goes in the world of artist Eric White, who follows the journey of The Woman in his exhibition ‘Local Programming’ at New York’s Grimm gallery. In his paintings, a romanticised and glamorous American dream is given a dystopian twist, with the seemingly innocuous world of entertainment infecting its followers with xenophobia, isolation and misogyny.
The artist draws on ideas from philosophers Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan in his subsequent reflections on the autonomy of being entertained, considering the divinity we impose on our technology and its creators. White also cites an extract from a Jack Kerouac passage – ‘was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night’ – which triggered the idea of creating the world of a game show.
‘I think the realism grounds something ethereal and incongruous, especially with respect to the three larger works, which take place inside 1970s-era suburban American homes, with massive televisions dead centre in the compositions. The rooms are rendered realistically, but are basically architecturally and spatially impossible, and they become these strange claustrophobic spaces for this anonymous character to exist in.
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