Blake Ward

Bio

Ward tries to increase the dynamic between audience and
author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality
that develops through different interpretations.
His sculptures demonstrate how life extends beyond its own
subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of
global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth
century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between
Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’
selves. By emphasising aesthetics, his works references post-
colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern
and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance
against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At
times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual
seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions,
further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of
meaning. By examining the ambiguity and origination via
retakes and variations, he seduces the viewer into a world of
ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the
stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to
punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence
and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact
that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being
hindered by the historical reality. Blake Ward currently lives and
works in Monte Carlo.

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