EXHIBITIONS / WAR PAINTING

03.02.2011 to 26.02.2011

Language ... what is the truth of language, Nietzsche once said, but
a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.1
This exhibition hopes to incite abstract knowing of the seemingly perennial societal mode of homogenous expansion through the theatre of wall painting: an indication to the imperium of mankind and the conquest of all "others". Alongside extensive use of painters' tape and a scalpel, hand painting is used to create anthropomorphic geometric sequences that cover architectural surfaces of the gallery space. This is seen as allowing a human element, more literal than the brush, to balance the use of tape rather than to harbour any sort of intentional expression. Within the mark is reflected the process, within the process a theatre of sorts: an unthinking performance governed by the structures that be.

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