Phone, Chains, Acrylic, 2025, £90
Turn Me Off and Be Free confronts the paradox of constant connectivity. The artist’s hand-painted text functions as both command and confession, acknowledging the seduction of digital devices alongside the claustrophobia of being perpetually “available.” The addition of plastic chains sharpens this tension, evoking both play and restraint, suggesting that technology’s promise of freedom is entangled with new forms of dependence.
By choosing to inscribe words onto an everyday object, the artist engages in an act that feels simultaneously intimate and transgressive. The work gestures toward rebellion in the most ordinary of places, transforming a familiar tool of distraction into a site of resistance.
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