Tom Faber
Click the play button to hear the audio that accompanies the artists’ work at Leicester City Takeover.
b. 1993, U.K
Lives and works in London and Oxford
Faber’s work focuses on memory, place, and transformation. He produces both videos and digitally printed images, using a blend of techniques from drawing, painting, collage and 3D animation.
Faber works with a library of scans, consisting of detritus from his studio and from the ground - paint marks, soil, drawings. With these materials he develops a language of distortive mark-making and plays with the possibilities of digital gesture. Converting these sources allows him to explore the assertive, faulty generations of memory, and the resonances of virtual ‘world-building’ at a time of environmental damage.
Within this framework he degrades and recycles images. Producing scenes which often have a harmonious surface, these works tend towards the lush escapism of popular animation, but collapse under the effects of weather.
Faber’s image-making techniques point towards the natural world but hover and stall in anxiety and escapism. They find ways of weathering material into a state of erasure, simulating threats to vast and intimate systems. After graduating from Chelsea College of Arts in 2018, Faber has exhibited nationally and internationally, including his first solo exhibition Quarry at The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture in Kefalonia, Greece.
In 2019 He was awarded a place on the UK New Artists and Platform Nord programme United, and won Glyndebourne Opera House’s 2019 Tour Art Competition. Most recently he has exhibited at CADAF Paris, VideoFenster Cologne, and Photo London.
UKNA PROJECTS:
UKNA City Takeover: Leicester 2022
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