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Painting (MA)

Reuben Beren James

A meditation on themes of liminality, concerned with the relationship between painting and technology, this current body of work is an exploration of the simulacrum. The adoption of a.i. imagery aims to blur and destabilise the already tenuous relationship between original and copy, prompting a reassessment of our understanding of authenticity in an age of ubiquitous digital reproduction.

Through the use of paint on canvas, these works become a dissection of the human form through the eye of technology, the sometimes fractured and misunderstood figures manifest both the misalignment and harmony between human and machine, inviting us into a space between the analogue and the digital.

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesPainting (MA)RCA2023 at Battersea and Kensington

RCA Battersea, Painting Building, First and second floors

Person painting a canvas

A meditation on themes of liminality, concerned with the relationship between painting and technology, this current body of work is an exploration of the simulacrum. The adoption of a.i. imagery aims to blur and destabilise the already tenuous relationship between original and copy, prompting a reassessment of our understanding of authenticity in an age of ubiquitous digital reproduction.

Through the use of paint on canvas, these works become a dissection of the human form through the eye of technology, the sometimes fractured and misunderstood figures manifest both the misalignment and harmony between human and machine, inviting us into a space between the analogue and the digital.

Two paintings on a wall
Don’t blame the path of least resistance / This would be great if we need to bruise a sparrow25x30 acrylic on canvas
Two paintings on a wall
Don’t blame the path of least resistance / This would be great if we need to bruise a sparrow25x30 acrylic on canvas
One paintings on a wall
Strait into quick sand25x30 acrylic on canvas
One paintings on a wall
Strait into quick sand25x30 acrylic on canvas
Two paintings on a wall
This ones no problem its dubbed / Cats make terrible doctors25x30 acrylic on canvas
Two paintings on a wall
What did I just pay for / I don’t buy a service I buy and outcome25x30 acrylic on canvas
Close up of teeth
What did I just pay for25x30 acrylic on canvas
One paintings on a wall
I spend too much money on candles 25x30 acrylic on canvas
Close up of a girls face
I spend too much money on candles 25x30 acrylic on canvas