Ben Coiacetto : HyperUpcycling

1 Dec-18 Dec 2016

Overview

In ‘HyperUpcycling’, Ben Coiacetto conceives of the junkyard of our cultural effluent: an endlessly rising tide formed of society’s used-up products – physical, digital and conceptual. Defunct electrical goods are swept up alongside forgotten youtube videos, dated trends, data dumps, and abandoned ideas. Instagram photos of pets, newspaper images of war, adverts, political rhetoric and celebrity selfies, all are equalised here, gradually becoming mulch.