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Michelle Follett is American artist best known for her work in a variety of media using imagery drawn from recent history and popular culture. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and vcan be recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
Her artworks are characterized by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middle-class mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, she makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing.
Her works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
Her works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using imagery, written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
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