Sid DiPasca is an American artist based in London with a multidisciplinary practice focused on transforming themes of temporality, memory, and physical space through photo collage, film photography, and painting. Drawing from art objects or artifacts with handmade, natural, and textural surfaces, his 2024 degree show installation “Askew” reflects and transforms these characteristics through digital and traditional means. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey and Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie, the replication of these worn-down or pre-owned qualities occurring in “Askew” presents histories as fragmented and strewn.
Box, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 78.7 x 50.8 cm
Photographs taken on the ground or through a car window, 2024, recycled paper, (5) A5
Untitled set of prints in open briefcase, 2023/24, recycled paper & calligraphy paper A5 & A4
“doubles” set of prints, 2023/24, recycled paper & calligraphy paper, A3
B&W set of prints, 2023, recycled paper, (2) A3
Wall, 2024, paper collage and acrylic printing
Self portrait, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm
Throughout the course of my research, I have developed a better understanding of our interactions with local and broader environments in relation to the surreal and uncanny. Also Inspired by Marc Augé’s theory of non-places, I explore homogeneity and nothingness versus individuality and character and their manifestations in our material lives.