Hyperrealistic Exhibit

WARNING: Contains images that some may deem NSFW

Shattered - A Self-Portrait, Jamie Salmon

2013, silicone, pigment, fiberglass, acrylic, hair, lifesize

This work presents the fragmenting shell of a middle-aged man's face and shoulders. His expression displays deep introspection combined with despair and shock. The man's turmoil is rendered as a snapshot, revealing a violent reaction slowed by the ballast of his life's experiences --- a linear progression of expectation, purpose, self-sacrifice, loss, and regret.

Reunion, Sam Jinks

2016, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair

Woman and Child, Sam Jinks

2010, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair

Still Life (Pietà), Sam Jinks

2007, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair

Beauty and goodness, And Grief and pity, alive in the dead marble, Do not, as you do, weep so loudly, Lest before time he should awake form death, In spite of himself...’. Giovan Battista Strozzi il Vecchio's poem on Michelangelo’s Pietà at St Peter’s Basilica

This work alludes to the Western religious art 'Pietà', also called a ‘lamentation’, normally an image of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ. Here, the artist's references the Buddhist meditation practice of visualising the decay of one’s own body as a means of bringing the mind to terms with the body’s inevitable end, contemplating the limits of humanism and secularism.