We have an agreed-upon version of reality, but underneath our projected notions of reasonable and absurd is the true hyperreality; I invite my audience to reexamine the world at large and see the truth of its wildness and splendor. My work shifts perspectives on the mundane, revealing the objective surreality beneath our surface perception. I magnify and alter everyday objects and patterns, slightly warping them from their original state, thus highlighting their strangeness and the strangeness of our ritualistic adoption of perspectives on them.Â
BIO
By reproducing and replacing existing objects, or drawing attention to behavior through performance, Henna Johnston shifts her viewers’ perspectives on the mundane aspects of life (and their absurdity). Her work shares an underlying hyperreality with its viewers, encouraging them to look twice at the world that surrounds them.
She is attending Rochester Institute of Technology for her undergraduate degree in studio art. Through RIT her concept had the honor of being built and installed at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, in Bethel Woods, NY.