Ed Fornieles
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Ed Fornieles
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| Born |
6 April 1983 Hampshire, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Movement | Post-internet, performance art, sculpture, installation art |
Edward "Ed" Fornieles (born 6 April 1983) is a British artist. His works are responsive to the movement of information. Fornieles uses film, social media platforms, sculpture, installation and performance to express the interaction of family, relationships, popular memes, language and the subcultures of 21st century experience. His work operates within the logic of immersive simulations, which construct and enact alternative political and social spaces. His projects often involve cultural, social, and infrastructural production, making interventions that reconfigure the viewer’s position and sense of self.
Fornieles was born in rural Hampshire, where his parents had an architectural practice. Fornieles attended Oxford University receiving his BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in 2005. He went on to the Royal College of Art in London completing an MA in sculpture in 2011. While in graduate school Fornieles worked as a studio assistant to Anish Kapoor where he demonstrated his extensive technical skills. Living in East London, he often worked as a freelance data analyst while he immersed himself in art and curating, having established in 2007 (with Ross McNicol and Vanessa Carlos), the Wallis Gallery During this time Fornieles work evolved mocking, often with a dark sense of humour, the high seriousness of the London art scene.
Ed Fornieles has lived and worked in London, Los Angeles and Montreal.
Fornieles was first recognized for his performance pieces such as Animal House (2011) at the experimental space, Guest Projects in London. Animal House helped refine a method that Fornieles would repeat in his subsequent works, engaging participants and viewers in sometimes awkward situations.Dorm Daze, grew out of Fornieles' interest in American fraternity culture as a large-scale on-line performance played-out on Facebook, where participants adopted profiles taken from real life American college students. Fornieles work focuses on the effect of narratives, habits and technology in the formation of social roles and personal identity. He uses performance to re-enact and distort relationships to archetypes and conventions. Each chapter of work is driven by an intense period of research centered on reinterpreting and remodeling the subject under investigation. The Dreamy Awards (2012), was a fictional ceremony initiated to raise questions about the cult of the awards bash. The work was presented at the Serpentine Galleries Park Nights with the participation of over 200 people including actor Zac Efron in a pre-recorded video clip. Other works include, New York New York Happy Happy (NY NY HP HP) (2013) where Fornieles was invited by Rhizome to organize a gala at the New Museum. The event was controversial because Fornieles scripted both actual Museum donors and actors blurring any sense of reality. Modern Family (2014) was a sullen installation where Fornieles explored the breakdown of the family both metaphorically and literally.
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