2012
hand-cut magazine collages on archival watercolor paper, archival adhesive
30 H × 22 W in (76.2 H × 55.88 W cm) each
Modular Systems examines the medicalization and technologization of consumer products. Incongruous components mined from ads for real products come together to form uncanny dystopian devices. The meticulously constructed collages belie their medium and destabilize the viewer's understanding of the real and the constructed, the plausible and the implausible.
Modular Systems examines the medicalization and technologization of consumer products. Incongruous components mined from ads for real products come together to form uncanny dystopian devices. The meticulously constructed collages belie their medium and destabilize the viewer's understanding of the real and the constructed, the plausible and the implausible.
…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
