Stef Macbeth (°1981, Exeter, United Kingdom) creates mixed media artworks, performances, media art and conceptual artworks. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Macbeth often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His mixed media artworks often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, he wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the work is important.
His works are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Stef Macbeth currently lives and works in Berlin.
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