Nothing to See Here

Nothing to See Here

Lazinc, London

September 13 - October 3, 2013

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Nothing to See Here was a body of work that looked at two main ways in which people lack having the full picture; censorship and ignorance.

Oliver used eighteenth and nineteenth century figurative painting styles of portraiture, still life, and landscape in order to look at the difference between trying to understand things that are not yet understood versus the potential comfort offered by being willfully oblivious. If knowledge is power, then those in the dark are powerless. Whether enforced by society as a means of control, self-inflicted for self-preservation, or simply due to the limitations of an ignorant mind, the inability to see and know all plagues some and empowers others. Are we blindingly ignorant or do we have our eyes open in the dark? 

BEFORE MY TIME LORES

Before My Time

I CANT SEE YOU LORES

I Can't See You

Oliver Jeffers Neither Here Nor There Install 3
THE WALL LORES
RESTRICTED ACCESS LORES
Oliver Jeffers Neither Here Nor There Install 2
THE SEARCH LORES

The Search

BEFORE AND AFTER PAINTING NO 2 LORES

Before and After No. 2

NOTHING TO SEE HERE PT 1 HIRES

Nothing to See Here Pt. 1

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