Photo: Harry James-Turner

 
 Visaya Hoffie’s  practice extends her interpretation of ‘expanded painting’ through incorporating sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, design, animation, leatherwork, and a range of craft media.  Iconoclastic, irreverent and challenging, her work operates as a visual celebration of the rich complexities and contradictions of our current world Hoffie’s immersive installations implicate the viewer as an essential and performative element of the work.  The  spatial realms she creates offer solace and provoke criticality in equal measures. Hoffie’s reflections on our contemporary cultural landscape are as  informed by traditional historical references as they are  by her fascination with the margins of contemporary culture.  The artist’s idiosyncratic, hybridised, boot-legged characters relate to throw-away images from advertising, click-bait and the fringes of the internet. These motifs often inhabit strangely familiar relationships  where  traditional hierarchies of aesthetic taste  falter and transform.

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