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And
1200mm x 12mm
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Artist Statement: The works, 'And' and 'Dicegold' are drawn from a series of large scale digital images
by gatescherrywolmark which construct a series of intersections, between disparate
practices, technology and subjectivity, word and image. Intersections are transitional
points at which the familiar becomes defamiliarised, unsafe and capable of creative
reinterpretation. Their existence at the site of such intersections enables the images
to disrupt the dualisms on which traditional categories of both art making and art
criticism are based. Thus, categories such as original and copy, artist and technician
are at issue, as is the whole notion of authenticity. As the boundaries between
practices and processes begin to break down the work increasingly finds itself in an
unfamiliar 'elsewhere', a 'placeless place' that is appropriately hybrid, plural and
impure. This 'placeless place' might be thought of as a paraspace, 2 that is, a space
that that has a symbiotic, non-hierarchical and ultimately subversive relation to
ordinary space. As such, it is a transgressive place, a place of power and excess in
which space, place and identity become fluid.
'And' and 'Dicegold' are located within such a paraspace, or placeless place. The work explores the
dynamic interplay between time and memory, presence and absence, being and becoming, and it contains
meanings that are incomplete and partial. The contours of this placeless place are mapped through
metaphors of the ordinary and the everyday, generating intimate and feminised spaces within which new
narratives of the self can be constructed. Both pieces can be seen as part of an on-going
gatescherrywolmark project to create improvisational and open-ended work in which control over
meaning becomes a negotiated process between makers and viewers.
Dr Jenny Wolmark
Writer/critic
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Dicegold
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