The artist
recognizes latent possibilities in objects, places and situations and brings these to the fore in order to create something new; at the same time they reveal aspects of whatever they have been based upon, as Jeremy Stick from the Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas says in his essay «Urban Objects: The Sculpture of Bettina Pousttchi».
That boy is happy because he is being set free, is having liberated within
him his latent possibilities and powers.
If we take account of the possibilities inherent in the world, and recognize that the full understanding of the world requires not only a catalogue of the actual, but also
the latent possibilities, past and future, then it is hardly right to say that creation takes place «out of nothing».
It is not the mere fact of
latent possibilities and their values.
The actualities of existence are seen as only partial fulfillment's of
latent possibilities.
One
latent possibility to solve this problem is increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis.
Her works serve as tools to discuss the condition of the individual under the capitalist regime: the constant abuse, dispossession and estrangement from ancestral and cultural identity, as well as
the latent possibility of revolt implicit in the everyday.
Tom Burr's work concerns itself with the myriad conditions of sculpture, its physicality and bulk, as well as its ulterior life and
latent possibilities.
i once read a blurb that seemed to summarize me perfectly: i am in a flux of
latent possibilities.
Her paintings, sculptures, performances and installations expose, as the New Museum points out, «the inherent problems as well as
the latent possibilities within urban ruin, exploring what she refers to as the «aesthetization of failure.
Paricio was focusing mostly on sculpture, installation and video art at the time of his first group show in Barcelona, Don't Call it Performance (2004), but shortly afterwards decided to make painting his sole medium; he considers
the latent possibilities of painting to be infinite and dismisses the idea of using other media or technology in response to fleeting fads in art.
Both artists explore abstraction and»...
the latent possibilities of contemporary painting, combining geometric motifs with a raw Art Brut aesthetic,» according to the gallery.
However, its pristinely white appearance, and title that equally references distance and fragility, betrays its lack of use, causing us to contemplate
its latent possibilities.