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Inspired by the correlation between the trend of unboxing videos on YouTube and Walter Benjamin’s “phantasmagoria of the new”. These drawings each a still taken from found video, ‘pause’ the process of unwrapping, creating an almost libidinal stasis.
Arlo Mountford, Star Wars, 2018
Digital print, 35.5 x 57.5cm
Arlo Mountford, Cars 2, 2017
Digital print, 25.5 x 57.5cm
Arlo Mountford, Unboxing Drawings, 2017 - Ongoing
Installed as part of Deep Revolt at GRAG, 2018.
Arlo Mountford, iPhone 7, 2018
Digital print, 25.5 x 57.5cm