I Know Kung Fu

Rob Birch

30 September to 24 October 2021

“I Know Kung Fu” a journey through unreality
Nothing is real. We live to serve the machine world. It is a matrix of self-deception, a set of complex social and factional programs, designed to create the illusion of social, political and sexual liberty. This is a world of ‘unreality’.
The traditional portrait is a tool of propaganda that conflates these illusions and what is admissible within this unreality.
“I Know Kung Fu” is a series of portraits that exposes the effect of this ‘unreality’ upon our notions of self and identity. I use what is permitted within the rules of this matrix to make new and challenging documents of identity that reveal the limits of who we think we are.
We cannot be satisfied with the knowledge that this unreality denies the existence of the uncommon and that, because of our protestations, we deserve to be broken.
There is no going back. The time to create new ways of being and is now amongst us. Now is the time not to lose courage.

Website: www.robbirch.com
Instagram: robbirch2001
Private view: Friday 1st October 18.30 – 20.00

Online Artist’s Talk: Oct 6th 2021 7:30pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81041894322?pwd=TmVxcDJNODJuUUg4WFd3ZDBXZnR0UT09

Please note: The gallery will be open to visitors during this exhibition with Covid safety measures in place. We would ask that visitors wear masks and maintain social distancing during their visit.