PANOPTICON
Humans are born for survival, not to commune with truth.
DUSTIN VOGGENREITER
Presented by Metro Arts
Panopticon is a series of digitally animated GIFs, displayed on large LCD screens, partially concealed by prison-cell window frames.
Dustin Voggenreiter’s work explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us.
As creatures born with perceptions geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic reality we inhabit.
From the Artist:
“Panopticon is about how the world around us differs in unimaginable ways from what we believe to be true. Why focus on whether we accurately perceive reality or not? Because now more than ever, the increasingly intense mainstream media narrative of division dissipates when we reconnect with our common humanity – quirks and all, ” – Dustin Voggenreiter.
Dustin J Voggenreiter is an artist who communes with ancestral spirits, sharing a deep empathy for the human condition. His practice spans contemporary abstraction, digital animation and sculpture, with an aesthetic bent towards monochromatic minimalism.
Dustin’s works are at once pleasurable explorations of texture and colour, as well as being a meditation on the invisible forces underlying human nature.
He has recently graduated from the MFA program at RMIT, has begun exhibiting at galleries throughout Australia, and has completed the Situate Residency during the first half of 2022.