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Adam Forrester isn’t bothered by failure. In fact, he’s inspired by it.
Forrester’s works of art in the “Master of Fine Arts Degree
Candidate Exhibition” are about the merging of polar opposites, like failure
and success. To illustrate these ideas, he engages in character-driven
performance acts. His exit show work will feature short videos of his
performances, accompanied by objects from these acts.
“The acts themselves closely resemble absurd cycles of
meaningless or futile acts,” said Forrester. He incorporates performance with
sculptural elements and uses his photography and filmmaking background to
reiterate this idea of making and unmaking, creating and destroying.
The theme for these works arose when Forrester grew
frustrated with making and creating art and decided to act in the moment to
counter his frustration. Grabbing the nearest object, a shovel, he began
digging holes, only to fill them back up again. This labor, while giving him no
tangible or “meaningful” results, inspired him.
Forrester’s work has been featured in the Oxford American, Appendix Magazine and F-Stop
Magazine. In 2011, he was awarded the Willson Center for Humanities and
Arts Research and Performance Grant for his documentary featurette “Eat White
Dirt.” His work has been screened and exhibited both nationally and
internationally.
Forrester plans to continue making similar video works and
exhibiting them. He recently self-published a book of images and texts, “SUPERMOON,”
that will be the first of a large volume of books about celestial bodies. He
hopes to release the next volume, “YELLOWKNIFE,” a book about Mars, with a publishing
company.
The “Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition” is on
view at the Georgia Museum of Art March 16 to April 22, 2013, with an opening
reception in conjunction with 90 Carlton: Spring on March 22. MFA Speaks is
scheduled for March 21 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature the artists discussing
their work.
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