Everything seems rather accidental — the ways these sundry
objects leave traces; Hubbard's decisions to follow their movements or linger on certain actions.
Not exact matches
In this fugue state, the relationship between subject and
object is particularly unstable: here, possession and possessor
leave traces of themselves on one another, rendering their edges uncertain, shifting like the weather.
She is less interested in the finished work than in how images and
objects come into being and in the physical
traces that process
leaves behind.
This flattened depiction of seemingly unusual (but in fact quite common)
objects appeared to carry some indexical
trace, although the connection to a source was
left ambiguous.
In a series of works started in 2012 Thomas Ruff essentially takes an idea that was first introduced my artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy who simply placed
objects of various shapes, textures and opacities onto photographic paper and captured their physical qualities through the optical
traces they
left on the light sensitive surface of the paper.
In both exhibitions, Schultz's attitude toward her selected
objects» both identify and conceal their disappearance — a strategy that
leaves only visual
traces, drawn sketches, and print works that function as a visceral evidence of a process seemingly made elsewhere.
Armand Fernandez, or just Arman, is a French artist who started out as a painter using
traces of ink and paint
left by different
objects on his works, to later transfer his interest from painterly effects to the
objects themselves.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and
object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the
traces and physical prints
left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.
Jeremy Coleman Smith's work brings attention to the stories that are told by our interaction with
objects and the
traces that they
leave behind.
Utilizing cross sections between photography, painting, light, projection and sound, Asgary creates sculpted environments that are lit much like
objects to be photographed —
leaving the mechanical
trace of the camera to the viewer's stance.
Tension arises in the dialogue between the original form of
objects and the
traces left by the performative interventions, turning the body into the material and the medium of action.
Objects do not have to survive millions of years to be fossilised, they only need to last long enough for their shape to
leave a distinctive geological
trace.