Contextual Propositions
Nov 15, 2019 - Feb 01, 2020
Contextual Proportions examines the ways in which artists work with text and is inspired by Toni Morrison鈥檚 essay Sites of Memory, which states, 鈥淚f writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.鈥� The artists in the show work with text as a flexible material that can both amplify and diffuse ideas. They leverage written language to explore dualities including: legibility/illegibility and meaning/mystery. In the work of Adriana Corral and Sadie Barnette, classified/declassified documents are presented to confront systems meant to obfuscate truth to sustain the powers of the state. Kenturah Davis, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Esteban Ram贸n P茅rez, and Peter Williams use charged and visually graphic text to engage with social and political issues. Johnathan Payne鈥檚 works obscure text through weaving in order to unravel the narrative force and tropes of comic books to assert other possibilities.
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Contextual Proportions examines the ways in which artists work with text and is inspired by Toni Morrison鈥檚 essay Sites of Memory, which states, 鈥淚f writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.鈥� The artists in the show work with text as a flexible material that can both amplify and diffuse ideas. They leverage written language to explore dualities including: legibility/illegibility and meaning/mystery. In the work of Adriana Corral and Sadie Barnette, classified/declassified documents are presented to confront systems meant to obfuscate truth to sustain the powers of the state. Kenturah Davis, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Esteban Ram贸n P茅rez, and Peter Williams use charged and visually graphic text to engage with social and political issues. Johnathan Payne鈥檚 works obscure text through weaving in order to unravel the narrative force and tropes of comic books to assert other possibilities.
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