Kiran X has been kind enough to send through an open invitation to the opening of his new show coming up next month. A Wellington based stencil artist, his works are intense and beautiful, using heavy and considered layering to build up intoxicating images.

‘Seductive Mechanizm’ is self described as “a collection of wicked new stencils pieces based on robotics and Frankensteining on various found surfaces from rusty steel to fractured timber. I’m interested in how people are used in the construction of advertising imagery, models are dieted, composed, photo manipulated and hyper sensualised to endorse products of want, from desire,” says KIRAN-X. “What fascinates me is not the product but the process in which the imagery is engineered and how models are robotically mechanized,” he adds.

The exhibition is themed around a reverse engineered collection of advertising imagery pulled apart and reassembled to illustrate a series of new works that focus on the visual mechanical elements of desire. “Ironically the ‘Dr Frankenstein’ process of stencilling has graphically transformed the models into androids who are now liberated from a product, or perhaps becoming the product,”

Who: Kiran X 
What: Seductive Mechanizm solo show 
Where: Pixel Ink Gallery, 219 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, NZ 
When: Show opens Wednesday 1st June 5.30 – 7.30pm and runs till 26th June

Check out more from Kiran-X at his flickr page or at Deviant Art, and for more info on this and other shows check out Pixel Ink Gallery.