Above Second presents an exhibition featuring urban art heavyweight D*Face (UK) will be opening during the week of Art Basel on Friday, May 16th. Art Basel Hong Kong has a long way to go to compete with the creative fervor of Art Basel Miami, but we're hoping to add some bite to the scene with an Off Basel exhibition, mural, and fashion collection worthy of an Art Basel booth.

D*Face is fascinated by society’s increasing appetite for information, the latest feed, the most recent tweet or post rolling into the past on the wave of a finger: like, unlike, follow, unfollow. We’re living in a world where information is fed to us; spoon to mouth, one after the other, repeatedly… but where does it all go? What happens to this information we digest? This constant barrage of images and information we knowingly and unknowingly absorb, on every journey, whether that journey be a lifetime or merely the time spent traveling from home to work, is relayed to us whether we want it or not. Billboard advertising, TV commercials, audio jingles, we store some and forget others like a jammed rotating billboard displaying different adverts all in one beautiful mess, selling us a ‘luxury lifestyle kids toothpaste for 12 monthly repayments’ like a real time, real life game of ‘Exquisite Corpse’.

This body of work is D*Face’s personal display of this game. Each piece is a subconscious output of images that he’s stored. These images are verbally assembled at first when D*Face is being prompted to recall images while under hypnosis. Each prompt resurrects an image from his memory, and is then noted for him to later assemble visually. As such he’s playing a game of memory with himself, over a lifetime of information absorption. Some elements will be familiar as part of our visual landscape, others the figment of his imagination. Together they form something new, something honestly dishonest.

-Above Second

Image courtesy of D*Face and Above Second