黑料不打烊

Steven Peet鈥檚 latest exhibition 鈥淲e Done It鈥� explores the fraught relationship between people, especially the artist himself, and the built environment. Drawing on his background as an architect and his experiences abroad, including a recent residency in Kyoto, Japan, Peet interrogates the tension between abundance and efficiency in contemporary urban spaces. Through his acrylic paintings on canvas and paper, Peet crafts layered compositions that reflect on the unsettling and often chaotic nature of development and cities. His artwork and creative process question whether these environments, and their apparent disregard for nature, are the products of careless design or are 鈥渋ntentionally hurtful鈥�. By connecting pictorial space with narrative potential, Peet鈥檚 evolving body of work challenges us to consider: are we the makers of our surroundings, or merely their output?

I wonder if we exist how we do because we want to or because we have to, and I grapple with the notion that we have become subservient to our own activities. Put simply, are we the makers or the products? - S.P.