Jonathan Monaghan
Person TypeArtist
BiographyEvoking collective fears surrounding wealth, consumerism, authority and technology, my video installations, prints and sculptures reflect a de-humanized, dystopic world. Orchestrated with digital techniques, I create imagery drawn from wide-ranging sources such as science fiction, ancient mythology and baroque architecture. Working complicity with the tools and aesthetics of mass-media, my works are sleek and refined, but their narratives and meanings are disjointed and ambiguous. Projected in large-scale, my video installations are windows into cryptic virtual environments. These works are frequently continuous loops, with no definite beginning or end, drawing a parallel to the endless cycle of consumption; seductive but ultimately a vacuous simulation where meanings don’t quite materialize.
