Peter Coffin is an interdisciplinary artist. His work aims to challenge our knowledge and interpretation of the world by questioning pre-conceptions about cultural ideals, perception, and interpretation. Inspired by art history, science, psychology, epistemology, and New Age beliefs, Coffin's work takes as its point of departure Carl Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious. Jung's definition points to the archetypal nature of thought and the idea that beings of the same species share an existing body of knowledge that shapes their understanding and interpretation of the outer world.

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series is a group of works that conceptualizes ideas connected to knowledge's classification, based on pre-existing structures. Appropriating images from magazines and books, these photos of nature, indigenous tribes or cinematic images highlight Coffin's favour of visual residue, shaped in a so-called do-it-yourself manner characteristic for his practice. In this case, the act of pairing open books, black and white photos or drawings and handwritten pages, on one side and colour photos of wild nature, on the other, is a result of personal preference and associative interpretation, bearing thus no objective relation to existing knowledge. The simplicity of the artistic gesture and of what the viewer sees, is in fact, all there is. It is indeed the very lack of correspondence between things, utilized by the artist as a conceptual trap to highlight the limitations and possibilities of perception and interpretation, which became the point of departure of the works and Coffin's main interest.

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