NEW SENSATIONS 2012

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Amba Sayal-Bennett Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London Ruskin School Of Drawing And Fine Art Can reception be separated from interpretation? How do we obtain meaning from visual experience and how is experience transformed and codified through a signifying process? I am interested in testing the logic of visual communication. By taking familiar elements from everyday life, or from within my own body of work and treating them as lexical units to be reformulated within my own aesthetic syntax, I aim to create drawn spaces that fit within dominant symbolic and linguistic structures yet temporarily suspend their organizing processes in order to recode the everyday. www.ambasayal-bennett.com

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Work of art I would like to make Nothing can be seen nakedly as reception and interpretation are interdependent operations. Knowing is not a processing of raw material received through the senses and so the discovery of this raw material through a process of purification is therefore an impossibility. Acknowledging this, I aim develop research trajectories which trace out alternative organising structures in order to suspend and disrupt learnt patterns of seeing. By drawing on the vernacular of the everyday, the prose of these trajectories become indistinguishable from the prose of everyday life. They use and develop within the vocabulary of the established language, yet they are able to trace out other interests that cannot be captured or determined by the systems under which they develop. Within the linear framework of most western cultures, and within my own immediate context, thoughts are largely divorced from perception and treated as abstractions. I am interested in finding ways to reinstate indexical relations through a process of consumption that involves the re-actualization of dominant structures according to new lines of temporality through my own use of them. If I was chosen I would like to further this line of enquiry by creating a new body of work borrowing from the common vernacular of transportation networks. This would not only allow me to generate work from a completely new visual vocabulary but also to further my investigation into the nature of the index and its precarious position within the public realm.

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