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About the Artists
Wood is an ‘artist’ and ‘urban explorer’ who conjures art out of mundane road markings and industrial surrounds that we abide by—without ever properly seeing—every day. Wood’s artworks explore these complex landscapes especially, the ways in which we’re allowed to move through them. From gentrification to Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS), the city is increasingly subject to new political and aesthetic visions. Wood successfully intervenes in these contemporary debates.
Working both with physical and digital media, Ashokkumar’s central discourse deals with how we as human beings make sense of the world around us and the dichotomous nature of humanity. Artworks explore contemporary concerns such as the mediation and formation of data into codes of association, the languages of belonging and the collisions and collusions of cultural factions.