The title of
the exhibition references coding and embedded meaning, as the works on view explore ways of processing information and developing perspectives, as well as the relationships between sight and mind and between viewing and being viewed.
Not exact matches
CIMA's first two - person
exhibition pairs the Metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico with the contemporary conceptual artist Giulio Paolini, who has described de Chirico as an «illustrious model» and has incorporated overt and
coded images and
references to de Chirico in his work for years.
In some of my art, as seen in this
exhibition, I attempt to bring together disparate
references, often taken from banal or common - place social artifacts, behaviours, or
codes of meaning that are considered so unglamorous or boringly functional as to be unworthy of notice.
The
coded title of the
exhibition translates to «Crazy Female Foreigners Alive and Kicking»
referencing Ashley's Scottish nationality and alluding to the instability of global politics, and the temporal existence of her sculptures inhabiting and moving through space.
Preoccupations with language and perception generally lead the works, from an
exhibition at Tate Britain in which a computer randomly selected lines from William Blake's poetry to be reflected off a disco ball in Morse
code format to «Inverse, Perverse, Reverse,» a large circular mirror that showed viewers» reflections upside down,
referencing Lacan's mirror - stage theory of identity while throwing a wrench into the expected experience of representation.