Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (2019 and 2020)
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (McGovern Park Couple), 2020
Archival photo, acrylic, chrome
95 x 65 x 25 cm framed
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (Celebration of Spirit – Jul 16 1983), 2019
Archival photo, acrylic, chrome
75,91 x 65 x 25 cm framed
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (Full Gospel March 27 1988), 2020
Archival photo, acrylic, chrome
76,26 x 65,6 x 25 cm framed
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (Businessmen’s Fellowship Sep 12 1976), 2020
Archival photo, acrylic, chrome
75,7 x 67,6 x 25 cm framed
Courtesy the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, London, Tokio
In his series Towards Universal Pattern Recognition, Shaw presents reframed archival photographs of subjects experiencing various states of spiritual, hedonistic or technological catharsis. Placed under custom-machined prismatic acrylic that has been designed to focus on a specific element of the picture, the photos distort and repeat. This psychedelic skewing of documentary imagery illustrates the altered state of consciousness of the varied subject(s) under the same parameters, thus considering a universal thread to all transcendental experience.
