Nick Hobbs (°1997, Shreveport, United States) makes paintings, drawings and films. By using an ever-growing archive of found documents to create autonomous artworks, Hobbs makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.
His paintings are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents. By applying abstraction, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history.
His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. Nick Hobbs currently lives and works in Fayettevile, AR.
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