Ewan Macbeth
writer,amp; director
Rotterdam / NL
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I am a Scottish artist working with filmmaking and photography whose work explores the (un)reality of propaganda. I think we live in a world where media, corporate and state interests are so intertwined that the borders between them are seemingly non-existent. My work explores how, working together, these powerful forces shape and control perceptions of reality. The final outcome of my work has included: photography, installations, single- and multi-channel videos. As a political artist, a diverse audience is important to me, so I show work within a wide-ranging media sphere: exhibitions, cinema and print. I am interested in producing publicly accessible artworks and do not seek to sell pieces to private individuals. I try to make unique and memorable image-based works that push my audience to consider how we are manipulated with media images. Through my research-based practice I investigate archives, write narrative scripts, collect and make photographs. I usually seek a specific event, image or moment in order to later represent a more universal story. Currently, I take real events, and then reinterpret them in an uncanny fake aesthetic. This approach takes at its starting point the increasing inability to distinguish between what is real and fictional in technologically advanced societies. I define this work as post-cinema, as I utilizes the vernacular of cinema, such as actors, set design and scripts but avoid the linearity and the limitations of a conventional screening. Post-cinema allows me to work beyond the disciplinary constraints of film whilst also drawing on my diverse and expanding art practice, influences and collaborators.
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[email protected]:
0616257569


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