Today's Face

Questioning common conceptions regarding the accuracy of time-based narrative and the authority of mass media culture, Martin Murphy presents the video installation, Today’s Face. Over the course of the video, a nonsense progression of news imagery is poured like liquid over top of a man’s face, slowly engulfing him in this liquid newscast. While reflecting on the constructed image of the news and the artificiality of linear time, Today’s Face also calls into question the relationship between free-willed consciousness and societally imposed logic.

Martin Murphy, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, currently lives and works in New York City were he is an MFA candidate at Hunter College. His work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO), Chashama Gallery (New York, NY), and most recently at the 2008 Scope Art Fair (Miami, FL).