Oli Sorenson.

PANORAMA OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Comprising paintings, digital prints and video screens realized in extremely vivid colors, the series Panorama of the Anthropocene presents a array of works created in a hybrid style evoking the square layout of Instagram as much as the pixelated landscapes of Minecraft and the geometric canvases of Peter Halley. While Halley in his paintings referred to the panoptic prison cells of philosopher Michel Foucault, my images are more reminiscent of the modular infrastructures of post-industrial societies, from computer networks to stock markets, telecommunications systems, maritime cargo routes, mining sites and intensive farming, all these sectors accumulate over an ever increasing land area, to the point of causing urgent ecological repercussions.

PANORAMA DE L'ANTHROPOCENE
Composée de peintures, d’impressions numériques et d’écrans vidéos aux couleurs extrêmement vives, la série Panorama de l’Anthropocène présente une panoplie d’œuvres créées dans un style hybride qui évoque autant la mise en page carrée d’Instagram, les paysages pixélisés de Minecraft que les peintures géométriques de Peter Halley. Tandis que Halley faisait référence dans ses tableaux aux cellules de la prison panoptique du philosophe Michel Foucault, mes images rappellent plutôt les infrastructures modulaires des sociétés post-industrielles, des réseaux informatiques aux marchés boursiers, des systèmes de télécommunication aux voies de transport maritime, ainsi que les sites d’extraction minière ou les zones d’agriculture intensive, tous des secteurs qui s’accumulent sur une étendue toujours plus accrue de la Terre, au point d’y causer d’urgentes répercussions écologiques.


Potential installation setup for project.

Potential installation setup for project.

LED Installation in vitrine, Angence TOPO, 2020.

Painting exhibition at Art Mûr, 2021.

Vitrine Installation, Daigneault / Schofield Studio, 2020.


Solo exhibition @Atoll Art Centre, Victoriaville, 2021.

"Battery" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 36x36"

"Laptop" (2020), Injet on canvas, 24x24"

"Intensive Pig Farm" (2020), inkjet on canvas, 24x24"

"Surveillance" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 30x30"

"Service Station" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 30x30"

"Phones" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 36x36"

"Oil Extraction" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 24x24"

"Carcass" (2021), inkjet on paper, 12x12"

"Windows" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 16x16"

"Intercontinental Cable" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 12x12"

"Intensive Egg Farm" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 36x36"

"Milk Extraction" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 40x40"

"Border Wall" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 48x48"

"Cargo" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 48x48"

"CPU" (2021), acrylic on canvas, 36x36"

"Factory" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 36x36"

"Bitcoin Farm" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Telephone Poles" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Nuclear Waste Storage" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Data Router" (2021), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Engine Bloc" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Chip and Board" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Transcontinental Cable" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Harvest" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Broken Network" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Oil Spill" (2020), acrylic on canvas, 30x30"

"Milk Extraction" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Cat 5 Network" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Open Pit Diamond Mine" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Urban Sewers over Lava" (2021), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Video Card" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Insecticide" (2021), acrylic on canvas, 28x28"

"Sim Card" (2021), acrylic on canvas, 24x24"

"Dirty Water Downstream" (2020), inkjet on canvas, 24x24"

"RFID Tag" (2021), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Mountain Top Mining" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Credit Card", (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Container Ship" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Air Vent" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

"Flooded Building" (2020), inkjet on paper, 18x18"

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