Charlotte Colbert @ Gazelli Art House

Charlotte Colbert’s forthcoming show Ordinary Madness, examines and plays around with the familiar icons of instant communication. Colbert, a natural visual storyteller with a penchant for the surreal, examines temporality through the prism of how we relate to the emoji and whether these digital icons are capable of transcending borders and cultural differences or an invasion of personal expression.
While recent studies show that the meanings of emojis can vary hugely between platforms, causing miscommunication, Colbert takes the digital image and places them over the faces of her naked female subjects in a derelict setting.