Dylan Neuwirth - Statement
Consider the image: a person in a ski mask looking over their shoulder. It is the artist. That is to say, it is the terrorist who is looking into the past at the menace of the modern, an architecture of dead design that somehow still defines us.
Art and politics are intrinsically related. Refracted by the market, these twin pursuits represent a polemic lens by which the artist is always emerging from immaterial, self defined, sovereign nations to explode reality and reassemble its components into self-serving definitions for consumption by the market.
The terrorist is only as powerful as the audience and both exist in an uneasy equilibrium that is the digital plateau, endless plain of compressed information.
It’s not what happened, it’s what is going to happen that is important.