OLIVIA STEELE – FAUX REAL
2016-08-08“Faux Real” includes a collection of truisms, illusions, and illuminated metaphors: Steele employs the traditional commercial medium of neon glass to create a variety of opposing contrasts that serve as a guiding light in the process of self exploration combined with the beautiful side of suffering and the quest for enlightenment. The concepts and statements on show reflect a series of personal self-realizations of the artist as she unravels the threads and unlearns layers of conditioning from a standard American upbringing in this game we all play called life.
“It’s no doubt that the future of humanity is moving into the imagination. As the gap between the impossible and the possible lessens, and the veil on reality and spirituality lifts, certain truths become more evident and hard to deny. A crucial aspect to our evolution as a human race is replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity. “Know Thyself“, a black-lit adage from this collection, brings us to reflect upon our need to nurture our imaginations in the journey to identify one’s purpose or, through self reflection, as you come to discover what is Faux and what is Real.
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2016
Circle Culture Gallery
Potsdamer Straße 68
10785 Berlin
Germany
