SRG Bennett - Mapping the Terrain
30 x 41 cm, Giclée Print (Edition of 10), 2020
A microscopic photograph of everyday life is imbued with anatomical and cartographic gestures to create scale-less, figure-less representations of this planet.
SGR Bennett
Stephen explores the intersection of art, science and policy. His starting point is how data increasingly penetrates our everyday lives whilst remaining abstract, vast, disembodied and unknowing. This, combined with globalisation and the growing complexity of society, is contributing to citizens feeling dislocated from public decision-making. In response, he seeks out information from online sources and then materialises it in analogue, organic and sensorially diverse ways. By making scientific evidence something that can be visualised, touched and played with, he aims to empower people. Stephen’s multimedia works play with geography and scale, moving between microscopic and macroscopic levels. With domestic and suburban motifs blown up to evoke planetary phenomena, he draws a link between everyday, individual activities and global issues: the personal is political.