"My
current approach to painting is about contextualizing the ritual
or performance of painting where technical processes are seen
as living analogies or manifestations of theoretical processes,
i.e. the pouring of paint into a ‘flow’ of sediments
across a gradient is linked with the ‘flow’ of information
through a system. The sediments perform like data and are Bifurcated
and restructured as they flow over the gradient, through the system.
This
performance of the ‘flow’ of paint from source to
sink is documented in a finished work through oppositions in pattern/randomness
and presence/absence. In self-contained ‘Flows’, paint
is poured through a canvas structure or ‘black box’,
where only the inputs (pours) / outputs (leakages) are visible
until the canvas is drawn out from 3D black box to 2D frame exposing
the structural adjustments in the meeting of paint and canvas.
The
performances are also documented through new technologies. Video
and photographic documentation of the ‘Flow’ performances
illustrate a novel contextual and self-reflexive approach to painting
and its meanings. "
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Enquiries
to Ciara Garvey: ciara@canvas.ie