Slash, 2010
(first resolved piece of a new idea I am currently exploring)
(first resolved piece of a new idea I am currently exploring)
With this piece I presentthe audience with an artefact, a document of Photography, in aconceptual play to subvert the idea associated with it of seamlessly recordingeverything that stands out there in the world in front of the camera’slens. I enter a performative act ofslashing the surface of an unexposed 5x4˝ black and white negative. Acameraless image produced from scanning the processed negative becomes thewitness of this violent act as it carries all the traces of her forcefulgesture that disturbs the flatness of its seamless surface. The visual result isan abstract pictorial space, which seems to be ‘bleeding’ from the tracescaused by the deformation act of slashing.
Mywork is concerned with issues regarding the utopian idea of ‘flatness’ ofmodernist painting and the ‘seamlessness’ of photography, which I challenge byengaging in the abstract expressionist act of slashing the medium’s surfacethat resonates with Lucio Fontana’s 1960 Spatial Concept`Waiting'. But unlike Fontana’s elaborate act of cutting the rawcanvas, here I have forcefully violated the surface of the negative in anattempt to beat its resistance. Blindly handling the negative in a dark bag, myonly guide were the tactile sensations between my hands and the materiality ofthe negative.
InkjetArchival print on pearl paper, box-framed, 36x45 cm
Mywork is concerned with issues regarding the utopian idea of ‘flatness’ ofmodernist painting and the ‘seamlessness’ of photography, which I challenge byengaging in the abstract expressionist act of slashing the medium’s surfacethat resonates with Lucio Fontana’s 1960 Spatial Concept`Waiting'. But unlike Fontana’s elaborate act of cutting the rawcanvas, here I have forcefully violated the surface of the negative in anattempt to beat its resistance. Blindly handling the negative in a dark bag, myonly guide were the tactile sensations between my hands and the materiality ofthe negative.
InkjetArchival print on pearl paper, box-framed, 36x45 cm
