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Robert Rovenolt: (no regrets)
For the Mills Gallery鈥檚 Project Room, Robert Rovenolt has created work that transforms the cast-off and forgotten into powerful explorations that address personal identity and one鈥檚 fragile relationship with humanity and the natural world.
In his words, 鈥淭his body of work is memory as collage. One鈥檚 mind sifts through layers of experiences and emotions trying to make sense of them but of course there are gaps, distortions and unexpected juxtapositions. Just as AI is capable of hallucinations, so too is the human brain: concocting fantastic dreams as well as focusing on perceived reality. From my earliest works I鈥檝e been fascinated with exaggerated shifts in scale, ambiguous narratives, and tactile additions. I鈥檝e learned to live with and celebrate the unknowns in a work as I assemble it. For me, it鈥檚 about the discovery that happens through chance guided by years of experience when you change the context and history of an object.鈥�
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For the Mills Gallery鈥檚 Project Room, Robert Rovenolt has created work that transforms the cast-off and forgotten into powerful explorations that address personal identity and one鈥檚 fragile relationship with humanity and the natural world.
In his words, 鈥淭his body of work is memory as collage. One鈥檚 mind sifts through layers of experiences and emotions trying to make sense of them but of course there are gaps, distortions and unexpected juxtapositions. Just as AI is capable of hallucinations, so too is the human brain: concocting fantastic dreams as well as focusing on perceived reality. From my earliest works I鈥檝e been fascinated with exaggerated shifts in scale, ambiguous narratives, and tactile additions. I鈥檝e learned to live with and celebrate the unknowns in a work as I assemble it. For me, it鈥檚 about the discovery that happens through chance guided by years of experience when you change the context and history of an object.鈥�
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