Worhaug’s work exposes the balance between highbrow and lowbrow aesthetic standards. Utilizing specific analog and digital equipment, Worhaug's work is able to borrow from industry standard aesthetics such as colour, content, and technique, therein functioning to mediate ideas concerning corporate identity and ancient symbolism. He is then able to see the physical practice of traditional painting through a tech-supported lens.
Utilizing the semiotics of digital tools such as “Selection Tool: Drag”, “Rulers and Page Guide”, and “Fitting: Fit Content Proportionally” Worhaug is able to see the physical practice of traditional painting through digital technology. By applying the tools listed above with his own hand, and by negating the computer as a device, he is able to use these tools as a framework of thought rather than an operation of technology. These visual traces left behind on the paintings can be seen as moments of progress and time stamps – a sort of digital ephemerality which have been embedded within the layers of paint.
(b. 1988) graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada in 2014. He relocated his practice to Berlin, Germany in 2015, and again to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2018. He has since participated in residencies in Spain (Mas els Igols, Barcelona, 2020) and France (Chateau Orquevaux, Chaumont, 2020), and plans to attend ARV.I Veliko in Bulgaria in 2021. Last year he was awarded The Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant.