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Recently, the question of what the work might seek to oppose has seemed of importance. This might be owing to the fact that there has been a kind of shift within the work; various changes are underway. It could also be a reorientation of the question of the purpose of the work, or to whom or what it is aimed towards. A sense or resistance has always been implicit. Lately there has been the need to consider what kind of ‘force’ the work appeals to, how it might be asking the observer to look.
One could assume that there is an element of humour within the title of the exhibition, given the nature of the work on show, but actually, throughout production, the focus has been fixed on the ways that these works can be considered confrontational on some level. Even if it is unrealistic to identify whom or what is being opposed it feels important that there is a provocative angle, this is the spirit in which the work is made.
The work aims to steer clear of the edges, not to become contained, not to rest or lean upon any one thing, any feature of itself, long enough for it to become an avenue for interpretation. The work aims to become completely independent.
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The work seems to succeed when its economy of means, its physical circumstances, somehow match its conceptual framework, the point where the two things become completely inseparable.”