It was suggested in my tutorial that I look at the work of Susan Collis, who uses everyday objects covered in the seemingly ordinary stains of wear and use to stage a misconception as, up close, the marks are revealed to be made of precious jewels and expensive, decorative materials. This links in some ways with my latex prints of the floor presented in the frames - they are set up as if decorative images, worthy of wall space and attention, but are repulsive and base on closer inspection. Collis' work does the reverse, but using the same method of established thought and preconception.
About contrasts of beautiful and absolutely ordinary - latex work beautiful v repulsive.... mine is more abject.
"An encouragement to test what we think we know" - Jonathan Watkins in Susan Collis 'Since I fell for You' at Ikon Gallery (catalogue)
Futility - 'Refugee', 2007 drawn out bag that looks same as mass produced one. There is a beuty in futility, and work is a reminder of our preconceptions.
interesting idea of something looking absent minded/accidental but being very formulated/ curated - reminds me of set design, where things are made to look old - perfecting art of making things look old, giving them false time and history is curious deception. "to replicate the accidental".
problematic - an ordinary object presented in gallery setting is suspicious - makes people expect something (wont stop looking until they've found something) - "Much of Collis’ work can go un-noticed and this visual gamble results in a possible conceptual pay-off that rewards concerted investigation by the viewer." - what information is given is very significant, can make the work - but also destroys the work if its purpose is investigation and the information is read before viewing it - 'gamble' a good way of putting it. You are rewarded for curiosity.
Emphasis on process and making - craft + laying bare use of assistants
Cornelia Parker ink - its not what you think it is - perhaps more of my work, and works that I am drawn to are about perception than I realised...
Uses materials that have built up connotations....diamonds might not be the finest but they represent something more.
Likened to Charles Ray in use of commonplace materials to make something odd/awry - 'Hinoki' a copy/sculpture/cast of a fallen tree in a different type of wood - its identical but its achieved in a different way, has a falseness and truth.
Notes and quotes found in researching Collis
"The point is epistemological, pushing us towards the kind of truth that informs the title of the work" - Watkins, Since I fell for you, Ikon
"she inverts the logic of the readymade by remaking the commonplace with interventions so seamless they could be entirely overlooked". Nigel Prince, Since I fell for you, Ikon
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