Alex Farrar will use his residency in São Miguel to develop a group of inventions in the Azores for next year’s Walk&Talk festival. In addition to engaging with this years’ edition and its participants, Farrar plans to sensitively explore locations, materials and techniques found on the island, allowing an undefined outcome to emerge that will reflect on his experience of life in the Azores.
With a systemic approach to art making Farrar produces concentrated groupings of works that have recently focussed on the bodily as a liminal space between our psychological interior and social lives. Often using humour and complex sculptural relationships between materials and their forms, Farrar mines embodied experience with strategies that recall Salvador Dali’s paranoiac-critical method, the Situationists’ psychogeography and Alfred Jarry’s pataphysics.