Sam Fagan’s sculptural practice uses mixed media assemblage and employs the tensions of hardedge abstraction to explore technological domination in our material world. His large-scale assemblages of industrial material include varieties of steel, glass, timber, fluorescent Perspex, plastics and rope, with an array of sourced and crafted catalysts.
Pilfering elements from the art of the 20th Century and the most recent developments in industrial and graphic design the work searches their common ground and revels in their subsequent conflicts. Construction methods and diverse materials frame the constant renovation of our visual language, a language that seems unsettled. As this language has been assisted, and afflicted, by technology a similar premise is explored in the work, where mechanical intervention in our world is so pervasive that we seem poised in a clinical collapse.
