Backspace | LASTA Youth Arts Festival Exhibition

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Following an open call in the summer, the LASTA Youth Arts Festival will include Backspace, an exhibition of artworks that celebrates a return to slowness in an age of instant images, prepackaged experience, and mindless consumption. Through these analogue works, observation becomes radical and seemingly outdated media become a vehicle for scrutiny and resistance.

At the advent of the internet, Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson understood that ‘through painting, one is subscribing to a world that is less frenetic in the glut of information being consumed…a world where the construction of meaning is more deliberate.’