Scarlet Topley

b.1999 London. Scarlet Topley is an artist who works across disciplines the way most people try on outfits before a party. She takes notes on television episodes and Reddit threads. She screenshots Reels. She’s tracing her own activation, the lower mammalian brain sees: shiny, shiny, shiny, snake! In her hands cheap thrills, arriving at the speed of light, are slowed to a glide. They are taken apart, examined and re-assembled, compared to some bit of something on the side of the road— a something that might even make it into one of her works. The logic of Scarlet Topley’s works is that of re-presentation and arrangement. The objects, paintings, performances and installations she produces speak of the fracturing contemporary experience wherein one moment we might find ourselves crying with a stranger, and the next laughing alone in the dark. There is a reflection on a specific type of femininity in her work as well, the girl who has it all but… (because there’s always something.)

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