Meaghan Hyckie – UFO-Fermi

Meaghan Hyckie
UFO-Fermi, 2018
limited edition silkscreen print
edition of 6
10” x 14”

*prices are quoted unframed”

Description

“I like working with icons that have become inert, even clichéd. Then I try to wake them up through a process that is repetitive and labour-intensive. I like to spend a lot of time with my work and use that time to cultivate a certain energy: it could be a kind of stillness or velocity or wrongness or harmony. Working with limited imagery allows me to be more free to experiment with format and material possibilities in my work, while creating a weird intimacy with such ubiquitous iconography.” – M. Hyckie

UFOs and Computer Clouds pull directly from a retro aesthetic (currently undergoing a fantastic resurgence in fashion and film), combining the child-like wonder of the dark unknown found in Tron and Stranger Things with the western-meets-science fiction blueprint employed in Westworld and the original Star Wars. The drawings leave you feeling entranced and engaged with something surreal, threatening and fast-paced that hums as you watch it come at you – vooom – like a lightsaber, or a starship in space. The way two simple notes, when paired together, can suddenly set your heart racing as you search the waves for a grey fin: duh-dum.