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- Eimear Whyte
Eimear
Whyte
Watching Everyone Having So Much Fun
Eimear Whyte’s practice is focused on topics such as online culture, information overload, our relationship with social media and its impact on our mental health and relationships. She explores how we interact with one another in a post-internet world, and the feelings and anxieties that come with this constant social media use.
By creating busy and overwhelming multi-layered work, the artist refers to the nature of life online. The use of appropriating imagery from the public domain and combining it with statement text pieces, gives the information we receive daily a new reconstructed meaning. The work is aimed to make the viewer feel like they are stepping into a virtual world. From the overly filtered images, a contrast between bright colours and depressing information and the constant repetition, it refers to a life of overthinking and oversharing online.
The artist questions how we engage with the internet and social media and how we have allowed something that is meant to bring us together, make us feel alone and isolated.