…endless deferral of decision producing a statement proclaiming its own…
Installation View, Galérie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada (Photo by Ibghy & Lemmens)
Installation View, Galérie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada (Photo by Ibghy & Lemmens)
2010
Text, Scrolling LED Screen
150 cm X 10 cm
In response to an exhibition organized under the principle of a ‘flat hierarchy’, where all artists involved were to co-curate and co-determine a ‘common’ exhibition framework, this work addresses the problematics of such models in relation to decision-making (in particular how these organizational models have been usurped into corporate management spheres to ‘improve’ efficiency and communication). The structure of the sentence-fragment loops upon itself on the LED screen, producing a ‘content-less’ playing out of its rhetorical self-referentiality.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]