JOS RICHARDSON

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Education. BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon School of Art 2003-2006 Exhibitions. BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 2006 ‘Parade wants to be a Satellite’, Parade, London, 2006 ‘The Triumph of Thinking’, Corsica Studios, London, 2006 ‘Dinge-kunst’, Kunst-Club Berlin, Berlin, 2005

When you feel that your body is a rag doll and you want to turn your pear into a
sweet tight peach, you exchange in the mechanical ballet.

When the object of representation is removed, what was once on the periphery of
our vision is relocated. Codes of representation are unearthed and re-used as
blueprints for ecstatic productions. Choreographed fragments from disparate pop-
cultural sources create parallel myths that border on parody.

The vessel itself is usually a failed DIY dream in which plywood, foam and faux
leather play an essential role.

Movements contained on screen are extended to the spectator; repeating but
accumulating at the same time.

Whatever perversions were contained within are now necessary tools for exchange.

If ‘Schwarzenegger’s acting style is based on the liberation of his body rather than
his face as the main vehicle of expression.’ then ‘…..this is what I would call a target
rich environment.’