ALEX DORDOY

Dordoy’s work explores ideas of artificiality, nostalgia, and the role of technology in image-making. The unearthly scenes and objects depicted in the artist’s paintings reference Art Nouveau advertisements and designs, awakening the symbolic potential of their imagery. The artist edits and manipulates his source imagery using Photoshop and paints the resulting compositions, returning these representations to the physical realm.

Figures are often absent in Dordoy’s paintings, digitally removed from the source imagery so that the environments float in an anonymous, nondescript space, offering an uncanny stillness of time for the viewer to be present in. Scenic terrains with skies of manipulated hues present moments of longing or escape, becoming pathways to connect with the natural world. Repeating images in the exhibition, distinct in their subtle differences of color, capture movements of light that not only suggest the passing of time but also question the influences that light’s quality – whether harsh or soft, vivid or faint – has on one’s psyche.