Event detail
Samantha Huang Installation Detai
Books in Limbo
EXHIBITION 28.MAY.2010 – 19.JUN.2010
CLOSING PARTY SAT.19.JUNE.2010 6-9PM
Aoife van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erheriene, Samantha Huang, Clare Stanhope, Peter Suchin, Sally Kindberg, Anne Sheridan, Stella Duncan-Petley, Judy Brown, Renata Kudlacek, Koenraad van Linden Tol, Zoe Cobb
‘A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance’
Drawing inspiration from Stephane Mallarmés idea of “The Book” not rooted in a psychological function for the artist, nor a cultural function but rather a metaphysical investigation the power of the book is that it existed alone, “happens all alone; made, being.
TANK artists and curators Aoife Van Linden Tol, Deeqa Ismail, Ese Erherien, and Samantha Huang have taken a abstract response to the traditional book form thus created an exhibition devoted to discarded and abandoned books whose fate hang in limbo in a rather prismatic way, a show so obscure that it must be read with commentary as these books transgress the measure of our internet obsessed cult. These found books communicate the antique awe liberating these books in their postmodern free form.
Aoife Van Linden Tol: London based artist and founder of Tank whose work takes explosive forms, careful measurements, layered performance, ghost forms, paradox pushing words apart, creating gaps in language, relishing the confusion and clarity of arts discourse.
Deeqa Ismail: Printmaker, collage, barest of materials, creating equilibrium, love of the discarded, using the rejected, erosive objects, the dissolving of mass, the binding of scattered ideas.
Ese Erheriene: A poet, philosopher an advocate of language, creating her own patterns through words and texts and their innate dynamism.
Samantha Huang: Playful curiosity, decadent, erotic collisions of pages, experimentation, sculptural, architectural, pushing kneading forms.
