CHARLIE FORD.

Charlie Ford’s practice probes at our idea of objective reality. Recently she has focussed on creating fictional machines or speculative descriptions of existing machines, adopting the input>output nature of machine processing and applying it to ideas about how we construct our sense of reality, individually or collectively.

The work for A Room With No View was directly influenced by the ‘Harvest’ shop sign below the exhibition space, catalysing the creation of a ‘reality harvesting machine’ that distills and processes the input of stimulus into an output of reality as an allegory of perceptual processes or the ways in which something gains the status of objectively factual or true.

The work consists of an assemblage of renders of 3D modelled components of the fictional machine. The independent components interacting across and behind the window panes constructs a vision of a system inhabiting an intangible fictionalised space within the house. The incongruity of components points to the inevitable potential for error in these processes.