Liquid Gold For Lasting Radiance and Exclusive Secret
2014
hand-cut magazine collages on archival watercolor paper, archival adhesive
30 H × 22 W in (76.2 H × 55.88 W cm) each
The Meta Static series dissects cultural constructions of beauty, health, vitality and salvation in the media landscape. Visual tropes of advertising and marketing are meticulously dismantled and reassembled. The uncanny constructions are at once seductive and repulsive, familiar and alien. The collages in the series include source material culled from fashion, beauty, health, and lifestyle magazines and are composed of as many as 100 individually cut pieces. Each collage and sculpture has a unique title taken directly from the sensational and aspirational adspeak in the advertisements from which the pieces were cut.
The Meta Static series dissects cultural constructions of beauty, health, vitality and salvation in the media landscape. Visual tropes of advertising and marketing are meticulously dismantled and reassembled. The uncanny constructions are at once seductive and repulsive, familiar and alien. The collages in the series include source material culled from fashion, beauty, health, and lifestyle magazines and are composed of as many as 100 individually cut pieces. Each collage and sculpture has a unique title taken directly from the sensational and aspirational adspeak in the advertisements from which the pieces were cut.
…Taking a captivating approach, Splan puts the viewer on edge by questioning current media ideologies related to medical science…
Project support provided by Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Grant, Tofte Lake Center Emerging Artists Program/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Stanford University
