DECLARE: Joshua Andrew Hollie
What does it mean to be contemporary? We asked all eleven of the artists in the show to give us their thoughts, collected in our DECLARE blog series.
Joshua's series of illustrations portrays a ceiling intervention that rethinks pre-established norms and challenges the ancient relationship between the living and dead in Hong Kong. The ceiling intervention, a columbarium, creates a language that doesn’t encourage one to look forward at eye level nor look down at a tombstone but look upwards. When asked what contemporary meant to him, he responded:
"When people think of contemporary they like to describe it in relation to art, design or architecture, in a sense its more than that. Contemporary should be perceived as a state of mind, a way of thinking. Contemporary thought drives innovation, exploration and inspires forward thinking. This form of thought allows designers, artist and scholars to think outsides norms and challenge the status quo to create something new."
