Lucas Ferguson-Sharp "Fairy Glen (More Real Than Real)"
Lucas Ferguson-Sharp is an artist residing in Glasgow, Scotland. Ferguson’s main interest lies in the often tenuous relationship between the natural and artificial worlds. His practice takes form through different mediums, processes and styles. At Galleri Fisk the artist turns his attention towards the notion of simulation in tourism, by reproducing the Fairy Glen, a Scottish tourist attraction. By creating his own simulation, Ferguson wishes to underscore the tendency to prefer a copied site to an original one. With this reproduction of the Fairy Glens the artist is invoking Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of simulation and the simulacra: “It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real”.