Tyrus Lytton


My current work explores the movement of ideas and their changing perspectives cross culturally and the simulations that we invent to cope with amorphous information. Representing a searching lust for life and in an attempt at avoiding reification the works call into question historic narratives and our relation to them. Mining historical art and juxtaposing it with popular media, kitsch, and detritus I am interested in playing, in exposing, and transforming archetypal motifs from our culturally collective experience. The works seek to take apart shared reality and provide a unique one; to mollify the ritual of mechanical and electronic reproduction with a personal physical one, akin to repeating a word until its sound becomes foreign and something new through its taste and shape. The images I have chosen express the strangeness of the familiar in a meditatively unquiet or embarrassed way and provoke dialogue through nervous questioning. All these works start out as, and maintain, a point of tension.