When my little girl falls on the pavement and her teeth go through her lip and I have to take her to hospital and watch her get stitches, I don’t really think about ‘almost real’ or ‘really real…’
Using an absurdist logic that joins together things belonging to different categories, the project of Shaun Gladwell is loose canon anarchic. Historical cultural material, contemporary technologies, and the urban landscape are boiled up together in his pot. The result, in Gladwell’s own words: ‘John Glover would have made excellent skateboards in his spare time.’
Shaun Gladwell critically and poetically links personal experience with contemporary culture and historical references through performance, video, painting and sculpture…