Think of a door (temptation/redemption)

Made using ersatz materials ‘Think of a Door’ is a reflection on the morality of social media inspired aspirations. Combining forms and motifs copied from religious artefacts and interiors with imagery from social media and smartphones, these forms and the work’s title evoke the image of a door – a metaphor shared by religious art and smartphones to describe their mediation between tangible and intangible space. According to belief, surpassing such thresholds might mean transgression or transcendence. Remixing imagery including Rodin’s ‘Gates of Hell’, Ghiberti’s ‘Gates of Paradise’, and York Minster’s interior with smartphone bezels and a halo selfie filter draws an equivalence between these images and their narratives of temptation and redemption. Tangled together, it’s unclear whether we are looking at hands from a religious icon, Anna Delvey’s Instagram account or a 12th century York jail cell lintel, in an analogy for the confusing and contradictory values of social media culture.

https://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibition/sin/