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On the cusp of perfect logic, spinning apart into something

QSPA Bispevika, Oslo
28 September 2023 - 7 January 2023


“Using simple materials that are close at hand - paper, tape, plastic - I build up works, often with John Cage’s adage ‘begin anywhere’ in mind. It’s a process that is both improvised and intuitive – imagery is not conceptualised and executed, it is eked out of a process that involves the manipulation of material. Folded paper, scratched wood, torn tape, blended ink. How much information does a work need in order for something special to happen within it? What makes for interesting friction? I think of printing as feeling my way into a problem, and clawing my way back out. Decisions accumulate, outcomes diverge – the works articulate their own logic of on-the-cuspness, looseness.

This series of works, while analogue in the making, often also elicit the digital. Unanchored forms float in simulated space, suspended in frozen gradients. What will be the outcome of our absorption - our thoughts leaking into the digital realm? What of our interface with screens - information expanding and contracting through a recently adapted language of touch? Tapping, pinching, swiping. Is there beauty to be found in this seduction? How are our physical bodies and emotional selves holding up?”

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