Superimposed pictures from a former studio: each of these images is comprised of a pair of slides originally produced as stereogramatic near twins. The slides depict my desk in a former studio (from about five years ago), and contain many of the elements of my work from then and now. There are pieces of 2x4 wood (or, as Tom Benson refers to it, 4x2. I think he is correct), as well as examples of the Goudy Old Style typeface. In these images the typeface is present in printed form (fragments of language describing camera positions and movements in cinema), and as wooden cutouts of each letters. These wooden cutouts were themselves photographed against a white background, and became a further set of sterogramatic images…
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I’m in the final stages of proofing a book that explains (or fails to explain) these digital print works (all of which are described somewhere below).
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ABACAB (A,B,C & D), 12 x 12 inches.
A digital print to be embossed and hand-written/marked in the appropriate places.
(a super-imposed replica of its constituent parts, originally released on the 14th of September, 1981)
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Tell Image, “Enter”, 18 x 12 cm
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Shadow Tale, 30 x 20 cm.
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eye signal to yew, 50 x 20 cm.
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Images from the exhibition IN A HINGE POSITION, at the CASS, with works by myself, Sophie Anson, Yuki Kishino, Andy Roche and Wouter Van der Hallen. The full list of works can be read here.
These photographs appear courtesy of David Grandorge, whose Diploma students in the Architecture department of the CASS were responsible for the construction of the internal display walls of the space about a year before this exhibition. A part of our rationale behind the show was to enact a sort of site-sensitive restoration of their work, and to set the formal structures of the internal walls into contrast with the otherwise rather abandoned space. This part of the art school building was the site of a bank until a few years ago, and remained so architecturally. One of the screening areas, for example, remains a bank-teller’s office. In the show it was used to house my video work Hand Car Wash. A second video work of mine, Ambit, was installed at the former entrance to the bank on the exterior to an atrium. For the opening evening this old entrance was reopened.
The entire interior is scheduled for demolition shortly after the closing of the exhibition.
The image that appears on the CASS’s website for the show is a fragment of the publication that Van der Hallen and I produced - an A2 poster that (with a central cut and some judicious folding) becomes an A5 booklet. The poster image itself can be seen here. It contains references to works and materials used in preparing the show, as well as references and documents that were eliminated from the show. It also includes a letter from Kishino to the artist John Smith, whose work cast a benevolent shadow over several of the works in the exhibition.
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All this done, digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 42 x 29.7 cm.
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I have fed you too, digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 42 x 29.7 cm.
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The exhibition IN A HINGE POSITION will open on the 16th of May. More details to follow…
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Please, won’t you accept this nasturtium, digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 42 x 29.7 cm.
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” Still Life Mirrors Framing”
The digital print work Broke in Line Over Time (mentioned below), recently collected from the excellent SE1 Picture Frames. I already have the strong desire to distort the photograph to scale (the print itself is narrower than A3 in relation to the column image within it) and have it framed itself. The original photograph is by Wouter Van der Hallen.
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