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Andy Holden, "Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape," 2011-2016

digital projection and wallpaper

Andy Holden, Jason Salavon, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Patten (and more)

Seven international artists who explore the consistent laws and systems of the cartoon world; laws that relate to or supersede the laws of our human world. The rules are often based on how cartoon characters view their world, rather than how we think things should actually work. The works in the exhibition consider such things as physical laws, systems of language and gesture, the physics of motion and systems of events. The apparent precariousness or paradox of the cartoon world mirrors the instability of modern life where the meaning of things is perceived as topsy turvy or contrary to expectation. Paradoxically the contrary nature of failed expectations can throw open the doors of perception.