Daniel Soma

Blacktown Arts Centre
Synthetic Spaces | 15 June – 4 August 2007

The perfect world is a notion that is toyed with frequently amongst authors, filmmakers and artists alike. The fantasy of a faultless environment is one that all people contemplate at sometime or another, a wonderful alternative to the melancholy of daily life.

In the work that I make, simplified spaces represent perfection in a rather superficial manner. The spaces show only what is seen, creating a ‘perfect world’ untouched by outside influences. These environments are shallow in their character, much aided by their simplistic form and certainly what you see is what you get. What you don’t see are the complications of everyday living and so they do not exist. These environments are closed and know nothing other than what is contained within them. The spaces soon become ‘worlds’ in themselves and are thus in their simplicity considered perfect.