Webb, Richard

My work scrutinises the media that broadcast messages onto our streets and into homes and virtual lives, identifying particular institutions and operations, from fringe religiosity to commerce, which, while being a fundamentally embedded part of our daily lives, seem nonetheless to inspire unease, suspicion and mistrust.

Through a varied approach to translating concepts into physical works, I combine production and reproduction techniques including print, machine-made sculpture, installation, photography and video to force recording and play-back devices to scrutinize one another, creating puckers and exposing gaps and delays. The pristine technological surface is ruptured, undermining the efficient communication that these channels rely on.