Henry Hoffman is a multidisciplinary artist born and currently living in London. His main themes are based on traces, symbolism and memory; something we need to be reminded of in modern life. His paintings focus on nostalgia and our innate ability as viewers to create story through abstraction. Henry’s most recent body of work centres around ontology, exploring the way we can alter and receive information differently depending on how something is viewed. With a keen interest in materials that have lived a life previously, many of the works center around the idea that nothing is new, things can be taken from their previous existence and thrust into a different world, conveying fresh ideas and heightening an objects existence. The work shows how the many forms of a person, place or thing gives the capacity for anyone to create their own reality; an environment of their own design. Hoffman shows that abstraction creates a human moment; a trace of what was once. A feeling of sonder.
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