Artist Statement

June 9 – August 21, Santa Mònica Art Centre. Public Event.

Other Days, Other Eyes (2019) refers to the evolution of the ubiquitous recording infrastructures that surround us and reflects on the generation and transmission of this information, as well as on the growing abundance of everyday and banal information that permeates our society.

Kitchen combines live footage filmed with a camera with curiosities of everyday life, archive elements and analog glass drops loaded with the weight of collected digital content. The smallest drops emerge from the walls and evoke the tiny newly created devices that could one day turn into a camera that speculated on the evolution of living architectural organisms. The work captures the coexistence of the physical and the virtual realm, the natural and the artificial, reality, imagination and the absurd.

This project arises from the IMAGEOBJECTLANDSCAPEEVENT research work carried out by the Kitchen-Hooker team, who have been working together for a long time. Much of Kitchen’s work is inspired by the writings of JG Ballard. In this case, it is a short story entitled Sound-Sweep, an excerpt of which says: “the sonic strata of everyday urban life (…) are so ubiquitous that they are literally embedded in walls and surfaces”. In Ballard’s book, a sound scanner is the equivalent of a garbage can that collects the abundance of everyday sounds absorbed by architecture.

The title of the project is borrowed from another sci-fi writer of the 1970s, Bob Shaw.
This work has been carried out in collaboration with glass artist Evan Voelbel.

https://www.shonakitchen.com/otherdaysothereyes

• Shona Kitchen (USA, 1968) is an internationally recognized artist, designer and educator living in Providence, Rhode Island. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) with a master’s degree in architecture, he has split his time between creative practice and teaching. Their practice is usually collaborative, research-based and site-specific. Through digital, analog and biological elements, his work offers a space in which the physical and virtual realms coexist, the natural and the artificial, reality and imagination coexist. In all his work, he explores the psychological, social, and environmental consequences of advances and failures in technology. He often collaborates with scientists, engineers, writers, and software developers. His work has been exhibited in different places. Work in the collection of .NewArt {foundation;} https://www.shonakitchen.com/