Artist Nick Gentry on his Human Connection exhibition

38 year old Nick Gentry's work sees him using old technology such as Floppy Disks and VHS cassette tapes and turning them into sculptures and paintings as a form of social archaeology. His work will form part of an exhibition at Mayfair’s Opera Gallery opening on the 14th of September. With new technologies for storing photos, film, music and words constantly being developed, and with all of our precious memories now being stored in the cloud, old technologies like floppy disks, film negatives, CDs and VHS have become obsolete. But we still keep these objects in our houses. Why? because they contain information that is sacred to us, whether a wedding video tape on VHS or a PHD thesis on a floppy disk. Nick takes these used objects which contain a whole myriad of people’s hopes, dreams, memories and former lives, and he turns them into something beautiful, and in the process his art preserves an important historical moment.