Tom Fairlamb
About
Tom Fairlamb makes durational, moving sculptures that blur into performance, video, sound, and drawing. He approaches making with a playful curiosity to serious questions about the world we are a part of. These questions often remain unanswered, with humorous yet tragic outcomes. The works are left open allowing for different readings depending on the context and the viewer’s own psychological, philosophical, and political understandings. Suggestive of narratives without being didactic, Fairlamb’s work can act as warnings, lessons, morality tales and parables.
By observing the world’s cycles and processes, Fairlamb simulates interactions between nature and technology. His work shows the systems and connections that are often hidden and invisible to us. Fairlamb is interested in questioning the impact of the categorisations and boundaries we create between human and non-human worlds.
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