25th September- Open Call Proposal '‘When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?’'
Laura Potts
Artist Statement-
Hope within art is as hope within any source within any field. I feel that hope is something so vital and important that even though we are aware of the failures the hope is what disallows their success. Within art and through other praxis sharing this hope and highlighting failings is my main aim. Sharing a passion for progression. A wake that says goodbye to the sleep we have been so cleverly tricked into desiring. This desire is a sleep that we feel as we walk, talk, work, function together and independently. This sleep seeps into our souls and defines what we are willing to dedicate our lives works to. Re-evaluation to re-emerge in a new sort of fight. A creative fight. We as a society owe it to ourselves to disallow the neoliberal strangulation to continue and divide us. Therefore, my work proposes a sort of a trace. A remarkable, untraceable space in which this inspiration, this change will be passed and interpreted. The minds trace is of great power and until visuality opens such paths the work will be void if written, if preached, if screamed. The handling and passing of an artwork, the viewing and latter conversations are of great vitality, a vitality that language could never encapsulite. Progressive change is my passion. My practice aims to combine a number of practices to explore the opportunities that creativity brings. Across artwork, writing, research and activism my work varies in medium and often questions the 'limits' of each field. Working creatively across these spheres with a focus on ethics and research is key to understanding the downfalls of the current 'art world'. My work focus' on the irony that often swamps the art world or artwork that is produced. This irony causes a vicious cycle which I believe creativity and collective action can break. Within my practice I investigate the power systems at play in modern society, further to this, I investigate the ways in which humans choose to ignore these. I do this through various media. Language is a key area of my practice as it is heavily research based and I often use language as a visualisation of an idea. In previous works I have focused on government documents and the ways in which the language fails society. A variation of this work featured at Firstsite colchester during their ‘Each to their own’ exhibition. (Pictured below). The second work I am submitting (a variation of the second and third picture below) would be a number of terracotta letters which I would arrange into a paragraph. Viewers throughout the exhibition would then be invited to re-arrange the letters to have a different meaning. Proving that as soon as words have been released their interpretation is no longer controlled.
Figure 1
‘Goverug’
‘Each to their own’ exhibition at Firstsite colchester
(Figures 2&3)
‘Restless’
‘Turn the page’ exhibition at the Forum 2018
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