Our bodies become lost in digital temporalities; frozen landscapes otherwise known as the digital mapping platform: Google Street View. Moments, interactions, memories from all around the world are preserved within the confines of the computer screen, the borders of search bars and task bars.
My practice involves extracting these moments and these bodies from the borders they have been trapped within and trying to bring them back into material being.
The suspended fabric body parts you see are remnants of a community I have tried to assimilate into for the past few months. I have rummaged through discarded clothing from charity shops around Kingston and used them to recreate the image of a person captured in 2018.
I am a stalker, capturing when this person’s body would fall apart in a glitch, a blur, and when it would pixelate, stretch, or re-appear again from another viewpoint. The pixels of fabric and the painted bodies you see are a homage to these bodies before they become lost again to a sea of images.
Lily Kellahan is an emerging artist from Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia), currently based in London. Her practice encompasses painting, sculpture and installation. Her fantastical, artificial and surreal colour palette evokes a digital dreamscape, highlighting the uncanny way in which we can now connect with the ‘other’ on a mere screen of blue light.