KIMSPO — tylerpayne

KIMSPO

HISTRIONIC Exhibition at Counihan Gallery Install

Shot by Janelle Low

Exhibition by Tyler Payne, Saffron Newey and Marion Abraham

KIMSPO 2019

Moving Collage Installation

iPads, Perspex, Marine Wire

© Tyler Payne

#kimspo

Me chatting about my work at PERFECTION in Dublin at Science Gallery :-)

KIMSPO

© Tyler Payne 2019

Moving Collage, iPads, Perspex, Marine Wire

Installation View, Tinning St Gallery, Melbourne

KIMSPO moving collage installation
The interface of Instagram encourages a false analogy between the life of the celebrity and the everyday life, a comic likeness between the sacred and the profane. The inevitable failures articulate class differences, insofar as the non-celebrity bodies of everyday consumers enjoy none of the economic freedom (time) of social media celebrities. KIMSPO doesn’t act like a direct critique. The work is collated picturesque landscapes with high end sponsored posts. The collages are compiled from various accounts related to #fitspiration. The silhouetted bodies are a disguised mixture of Kardashian figures and #fitspiration influencers. Their retouched bodies undetectably in difference. The video pieces were designed to fit the screens that the collated imagery was originally intended for: tablets and smartphones. In installation the KIMSPO series has iPads suspended in the air and clustered to represent the panoptic presence of the unattainable bodies and product placement of #fitspiration.

I put down the camera, and picked up the photograph
- Tyler Payne

KIMSPO #flash

© Tyler Payne 2019

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KIMSPO

© Tyler Payne 2019

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KIMSPO #tropics

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At the centre of #fitspiration advertising products is the idol-like form of Kim Kardashian. Everyday women consume #fitspo products with this idol-like form in mind. But the fetish-like presentation distracts from an important reality: the rigorous disciplines required to produce that body, the labour-time expended in the mastery of capacities. The Kardashian-body is a ‘full-time’ role.

KIMSPO (#doitfortheafterphoto),

© Tyler Payne 2018

digital collage, GIF

Kardashian’s body is both idolised and consumed through social media. She is a fetish object alongside the products she sells, or, more pointedly, she is the product. Her flat tummy, her shapely waist represent the value of the commodity from which she has become indistinguishable.