18.02.22

As we've had to propose our location for our exhibition this week the work that's going to be in my installation has been my focus. I know for certain the 'SCENT VESSEL' body of work will be included as well as a net piece in some form. In what form is still to be played around and experimented with. I'm also beginning to play with what was my exhibition description as a piece in its own right. I want to play with blowing up the document and seeing if the value of it as a work changes when it scales up. I'm also playing with the aesthetic value of the text by playing with font, letter distance and maybe getting written up on a type writer. If the scaling up doesn't sustain it aesthetic value I plan on creating something similar to Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled (Death by Gun)' 1990 by having a pile of them able to be taken by the public. I like the idea of keeping the work as an A4 piece of printer paper as it retains a throwaway and a temporary physicality yet the work is the words whether they be spoken, written or typed.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled (Death by Gun)' 1990

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Félix González-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's sexual orientation was influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of light bulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies. In 1987, he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose intention was to work collaboratively, adhering to principles of cultural activism and community education. All of Gonzalez-Torres' works, with few exceptions, are untitled "Untitled" in quotation marks, sometimes followed by parenthetical title. (This was an intentional titling scheme by the artist).