We live in an age where everything is available for us - where any information one wishes to seek is easily found through the Internet. There is an abundance of information, in shocking and overwhelming amounts.
Samuel J. Roberts presents the effect of abundance of information in his latest work, Abundant Knowledge. The work dramatizes the current reality’s confusion on how to process information being thrown at you (in varying amounts), making the work seem enigmatic. Paper Magazine details:
"In this age of Abundant Knowledge, I feel technology isn't being used in the best way," explains artist Samuel J. Roberts. His latest work, Abundant Knowledge, is an abstract meditation on this concept, positing a world where the organic and synthetic degrade into an uncanny singularity. "Like a test of free will, much of it is geared towards narcissism and avaricious pleasures."
Abundant Knowledge doesn't necessarily offer solutions, so much as dramatize our current reality's disconnect. Iridescent organza wrapped around a human body moving through a serene field feels more like a CGI blob rendered against some stock footage than real life.
This warping of the ordinary into the uncanny makes Abundant Knowledge so enigmatic and enticing. You aren't sure how to put together the information that is being thrown at you, but you press on nonetheless.
image credit: Samuel J. Roberts via Paper Magazine