About the Artist
i like to work with 35 mm film mostly. the darkroom is my home. my work mostly focuses on how humans comunicate with eachother and how we make eachother feel/ how i feel sometimes. i like to think of my work as a combination of traditional photography with a little modern influence as far as aethstetics go. check it out, i hope you enjoy.
Artist's Statement
Andrew Haines (°1999, Parkton, United States) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By questioning the concept of movement, Haines often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.
His works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By investigating language on a meta-level, he tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.
His works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Andrew Haines currently lives and works in Salisbury.
