JOSH
ROWELL
About
Josh Rowell (Kent, 1990) generates his artistic vision by focusing on the technological innovations that shape our contemporaneity, communicating, within the confines of the visual arts, how human interactions are increasingly mediated.
The artist balances artisanal techniques with the instant nature of the digital age. This juxtaposition produces a language that explores and re-structures information, and celebrates the hand-made in a period strongly dominated by virtual action.
Born as an abstract painter, in the course of his experience, Rowell approached sculpture and multimedia art, often working with light, video and sound installations.
In spite of the disparity of languages, his vision always underlies the guidance of a codified system:
"Everything can be reduced to a molecular binarism where all systems can be simplified to yes / no decisions"