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I_am_WAYNE_HORSE
Willehad Eilers (1981, Peine, Germany) also works under the
pseudonym Wayne Horse.
Eilers graduated from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He lives and
works in Amsterdam, NL.
His eclectic body of work comprises video, drawing, performance and
installation, and is distinctive for its lyrical quality, playful humour
and expressiveness. A recurring narrative in his oeuvre revolves around
the bizarre, occasionally ugly but always compelling aspects of
humanity.
To refer to Willehad Eilers as an artist-ethnographer is not too
much of a stretch. Describing his practice as an investigation of
the heuristically learnt political and cultural mores that define
contemporary society, Eilers gently nudges us towards a poetic
realisation of our social selves through his highly performative range
of paintings, videos and drawings. Infused with a mischievous,
effortless confidence, Eilers’ crude-style works offer us anthropological
insight into his observations of the flawed human condition and its
perpetual evolution. He unflinchingly presents us with images that
convey the disposition of the modern individual towards grotesque,
even masturbatory obsessions. Underlying his practice is an artistic
methodology that recalls the theorist James Clifford’s concept of
“ethnographic surrealism”: he assails the quotidian situations that we
think are familiar, and renders them unrecognisable. By mounting
successive challenges to the hegemonic boundaries of our imagination,
Eilers provokes his viewers into directly interacting with his highly
unique works.
for more info consult www.waynehorse.com |
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