near to no attention to fears and without anything between the opposite of tears

About

In sculpture, photography and drawing, Dean's work communicates the logic of language, but one that refuses to provide an accessible meaning.

Dean's sculptures and images have their roots in his own writing - a writing that memorializes what he describes as 'moments of intensity and attraction'. Dean is not interested in communicating his own personal intimacies, however, but rather in finding a mechanism to create a mutually exclusive intimacy ' one in which the viewer is confronted with an impenetrable model of language and thus projects their own meaning into it. Dean condenses his writing into abstracted typographies, the application of which then impose distinctly abstract topologies on sculpture and image alike. Distance is continually manufactured until the work is separate from its
source.

The new black cement sculptures made for WORKS|PROJECTS are monumental yet mute. Like monoliths from pre-history, their formal qualities ' their angled planes, their repeated structures ' demonstrate language at its most basic level and in its most unknowable state. The cement surfaces have the unevenly polished quality of hewn stone rendered almost glacial in parts from the constant attention of hands tracing, or searching for, meaning. But no matter how much we force ourselves
against their surfaces it cannot be secured.

The new sculptures are accompanied by photographs of abstract black surfaces that are traversed by triangular trajectories that mimic the sculptures three-dimensional
planes. Articulate yet autonomous, they draw us in to read the unreadable.

For more information, images or to arrange interviews or photo opportunities please email info@worksprojects.co.uk