Elliot Dodd
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Dodd warps dominant codes of male identity, technology and capital in order to better understand and, in many cases, believe them. His intrepid practice spans video, drawing, sculpture and VR technologies, while he has had a range of commissioned work, by institutions from the Royal Academy of the Arts to Vimeo’s Daata Editions. Throughout his works on paper and on screen, cars, corporate logos and other symbols of financial power and masculinity are subverted into fluid, rubbery forms. In his digital works, the picture quality often falls in and out of pixelated landscapes, blurring on-screen and off-screen realities by recalling a digital interface or loading screen. Complicating these seductive popular formats and patriarchal symbols, Dodd exposes our personal desires as unavoidably wrapped up in power structures that are so pervasive that we often fail to see them.