I want to be. Inside Out.
Hammond, Chris and Bodart, Pauline. 2015. I want to be. Inside Out.. In: "I want to be. Inside Out.", Mot International Brussels, Belgium, 14 March – 11 April 2015. [Show/Exhibition]
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Show/Exhibition |
Creators: | Hammond, Chris and Bodart, Pauline |
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Abstract or Description: | MOT International Brussels is delighted to bring together a selection of works by Benoit Maire, Ulrike Müller, Anouchka Oler, Zin Taylor and Sue Tompkins. The exhibition echoes a strategy often used by Benoît Maire in his practice—experimentation with relationships between forms and texts by bringing the disparate in close proximity to one another. This grouping of distinct works allows for unpredicted connections to emerge between language, the body and the performance of both into objects. Similarly to Maire, Ulrike Müller also creates an alternative language for interrogating the dichotomies between form and content, abstraction and figuration. To create her enamel pieces, Müller combines the handmade with the industrially produced. She works with an actively changing and distinctly abstract geometric language as a way of codifying bodily forms with queer politics. The sexualised triangles, lines and circles are imbued with a sense of humor and a clear reference to popular culture. The shapes become syntax open to interpretation in order to break with the didactic system of binaries, such as masculine and feminine. Anouchka Oler’s film Épisode 2 (2014) is the sole work in the exhibition that utilises audio. The artist’s own authoritative voice articulates an anxiety with contemporary individualism illustrated through the contrast between the rebellious group of her hand-made sculptural forms set against a backdrop of collaged reproductions of historical antiquities. The narrator, as collaborator in the performance, moves from a place of control to one of saddened confessional. Drawing attention to the futility of a sole authorial voice, and the inadequacies of human limitations, Oler fills the void of the absent voice for both the objects and the artist. |
Contributors: | Maire, Benoît (Artist); Oler, Anouchka (Artist); Müller, Ulrike (Artist); Taylor, Zin (Artist) and Tompkins, Sue (Artist) |
Official URL: | http://web.archive.org/web/20160331165837/http://w... |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art |
Date range: | 14 March – 11 April 2015 |
Event Location: | Mot International Brussels, Belgium |
Item ID: | 21466 |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2017 15:46 |
Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2017 15:46 |
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