BorderLine: Rik Pinkcombe

SWAY, UK.- ArtSway will present BorderLine: Rik Pinkcombe, on view 14 April - 20 May 2007. Rik Pinkcombe's photographs engage with the concept that contemporary existance in the developed world is saturated by a de-personalised, profit-driven consumer industry that affects personal identity and distorts our view of the world around us. Pinkcombe's mixed-race background influences his work, leading him to visually question different perceptions of identity, and how an individual perceives and is perceived. Pinkcombe considers what it is to be mixed-race - quite literally coming from both sides of a metaphysical 'border' - and the consequences of being perceived or judged as not being from one side or the other. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19838