For the past few years Grant Stevens has explored the languages of popular culture through his text, images and sound videos. His works appropriate and de-contextualise a range of cultural cliches and conventions that seem to surround us every day. Whether it's through the over abundance of mixed metaphors or the incessant onslaught of predictable plotlines, his works seem to disrupt and challenge the way we read mainstream culture.
Stevens' video In the Beyond is a mandala-like circular display of people's self-descriptive words from internet MySpace pages - a work exploring notions of spirituality and self-reflection. For further information on this work or others by the artist please contact us at starkwhite@starkwhite.co.nz
Image: Grant Stevens, In the Beyond (video still), 2008, digital video, edition of 9
