Artwork: Installation view of Hugo McCloud: Veiled at Sean Kelly, New York. Photography: Jason Wyche, New York. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see,” Edgar Degas observed more than a century ago, keenly aware of people’s propensity to project themselves upon all they encounter in the world. Being conscious, it is never possible to get out of our head, but the gift of an artist is to reframe our perceptions. In doing so we grow, expanding our understanding and deepen our sensibilities, so that our very being is enhanced.
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American artist Hugo McCloud (b. 1980) understands this and transforms the way we experience the act of looking itself. Trained as an industrial designer and a welder, McCloud worked alongside architects and developers on construction sites, acquiring a hands-on sensibility towards the materials used to create the world in which we live and bringing it to his art.
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