Bio

Hayden Hall received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2021 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where she continues her practice.

Artist Statement

With an ever-growing fascination for both physical artmaking, mainly in the form of painting and digital mediums like photography and digital printmaking, my practice as an artist has grown to be an extension and exploration of the world as I experience it. My practice investigates and imitates, both visually and linguistically, the realities, and specifically the curated realities, I continue to encounter daily. As an artist, I enjoy pushing the boundaries of what is and has been known to be art in a way that blurs the line between art and the real world. In many ways, my work has been the result of a desire to create based on images, devices, or styles that already exist but are not meant to be recreated - either physically or at all.

Straddling a thin line between conscious resistance and meticulous imitation, my work both confronts and takes advantage of technology, internet culture and the ways we participate in and accept its conditions and influence. Much of my practice relies on bringing to light or manipulating the things we unconsciously take in on a day-to-day basis in order to disrupt habitual fast-moving lifestyles. Stretched across physical and digital mediums and platforms, recent works tackle the curated and tactical reality we live in with the internet, social media, advertisements, pop-ups, notifications, clickbait, etc. My work imitates these digital and capitalistic aspects of life in hopes of creating a life – a slower, more meaningful, conscious life – that imitates art. Through my practice, there’s a push for hesitation, questioning, recognition, and acknowledgement. There becomes a space to challenge familiarity and the devices we’ve become so unknowingly accepting of – a space, unsolicited, that incites a form of awareness and conscientiousness that has otherwise been weeded out of us.

Note: Several works shown are interactive. Your participation is encouraged to experience the work in its full capacity.

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