ARE YOU LIVING COMFORTABLY? @ NEW ADELPHI EXHIBITION GALLERY
10 October - 23 December 2022
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford, Salford / Monday – Friday / 10AM – 4PM / Plan you visit here
Are you Living Comfortably? is an example of how the imagination of art can interpret the discovery of science. McCoy Wynne deployed the similarities of scientific research and artistic creativity by taking a step-by-step approach, citing each area of their research in the final artwork and exploring beyond the Energy House for information and ideas. Conversation and curiosity are two important features in both art and science, McCoy Wynne took diverse steps in their own practice: Measuring their carbon footprint whilst working as photographers, planting their own vegetables from seed, and further researching, sustainability, the importance of trees and green space in the urban environment.
Energy House was created in a laboratory chamber, like a lab rat the house is tested, measured and its changes analysed. The rooms are filled with wires, sensors and equipment to detect every temperature and atmospheric change. Anyone working in the house, including the 2 photographers, also became part of the monitoring – recorded by the heat they radiate and the C02 they exhaled. McCoy Wynne visualised heat using a thermal imaging camera, they incorporated these images, their temperature scales and referenced the thermal colours, within the layers of the final pictures.
For many years McCoy Wynne have photographed property awaiting re-development or for sale. In this context Energy House felt familiar, like another empty property awaiting refurbishment and new residents. They have recreated the house, giving it a new imagined life, dressed as if ready for sale or rent with views from its windows and set within its own gardens. The details of this imagined world are semi-opaque to give a new sense of reverie to scientific study.
McCoy Wynne have created every detail of this final set of pictures, assembled from the photographs they took of the house, interiors, research and specific furnishings, to make the laboratory house now recognisable as a home.
Image Credit: McCoy Wynne, from the series Are You Living Comfortably?
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford, Salford / Monday – Friday / 10AM – 4PM / Plan you visit here
Are you Living Comfortably? is an example of how the imagination of art can interpret the discovery of science. McCoy Wynne deployed the similarities of scientific research and artistic creativity by taking a step-by-step approach, citing each area of their research in the final artwork and exploring beyond the Energy House for information and ideas. Conversation and curiosity are two important features in both art and science, McCoy Wynne took diverse steps in their own practice: Measuring their carbon footprint whilst working as photographers, planting their own vegetables from seed, and further researching, sustainability, the importance of trees and green space in the urban environment.
Energy House was created in a laboratory chamber, like a lab rat the house is tested, measured and its changes analysed. The rooms are filled with wires, sensors and equipment to detect every temperature and atmospheric change. Anyone working in the house, including the 2 photographers, also became part of the monitoring – recorded by the heat they radiate and the C02 they exhaled. McCoy Wynne visualised heat using a thermal imaging camera, they incorporated these images, their temperature scales and referenced the thermal colours, within the layers of the final pictures.
For many years McCoy Wynne have photographed property awaiting re-development or for sale. In this context Energy House felt familiar, like another empty property awaiting refurbishment and new residents. They have recreated the house, giving it a new imagined life, dressed as if ready for sale or rent with views from its windows and set within its own gardens. The details of this imagined world are semi-opaque to give a new sense of reverie to scientific study.
McCoy Wynne have created every detail of this final set of pictures, assembled from the photographs they took of the house, interiors, research and specific furnishings, to make the laboratory house now recognisable as a home.
Image Credit: McCoy Wynne, from the series Are You Living Comfortably?