EMMA HOLMES

		Emma Holmes' paintings are constructed from multiple photographic and digital sources. These constructed landscapes are depicted in a realism simul taneously precarious and viable. They describe the unseen places on the fringes of public space.
In the process of creating the painted image, the discrepancies between different time-spaces, lenses, and light conditions are never resolved, but hover over the work like a ghost or a disquieting association.	Holmes' visions of self-estrangement overturn modern formations of angst. There is no holistic self that becomes fragmented and alienated in life. There is rather, only the affect of a constructed self that becomes strange to us when we focus too intensely upon it.
	As technology brings us closer to the possibility of creating Artificial Life, life seems more mechanical. Emma Holmes fuses the vacuums of our perceived individuality with the intimacy of self-reflection.

Emma Holmes lives and works in London