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Salvador Dali meets science fiction in a fantastical vision from an alternate reality. Cows, superheros, video games, luxury hotels, and operating rooms seamlessly meld in a surreal exploration of value and power in the digital era. Trapped in an endless loop of seductive but ultimately vacuous simulation where meanings don’t quite materialize.

American artist Jonathan Monaghan (born 1986, New York) creates sculpture and animated video installations that challenge the boundaries between the real, the imagined, and virtual. Pulling from wide-ranging sources such as science fiction and baroque architecture, he creates bizarre, yet compelling, virtual environments and stories with the same high-end technology used by Hollywood and video games. His work has been exhibited worldwide in venues such as Bitforms Gallery in New York, BFI Southbank in London, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., and the Moving Image Art Fair London. His work has been featured by The Washington Post, Metropolis M, The Huffington Post, TimeOut NY, The Wall Street Journal and NYC TV.