Oskar Backent
My work attempts to categorise and make sense of personal histories, pop culture and its influences in aesthetically uncanny forms. Through pirating pre-existing modes of cultural production: I seek to confront the possibilities of being shaped by the content I am pirating and gleaning from. Broken computer monitors and 2000s digital photo screens are utilised to contrast drypoint printmaking forms; creating a tension between the traditional and the technologically obsolete. Engaging with forms of connection and disconnection, looping and building, an immersive display of developing influences are put on full display. “Radio Silence” can be seen as an accumulation of my interest in technological obsolescence and the rise of Retromania: a cultural obsession with nostalgia.