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Lutecia

Lutecia comes out of a period of intense experimentation and has witnessed the diversification of the work and an increased interest in the works’ meaning, being entirely preoccupied with its own conventions: the ‘problem of the exhibition’.

A large wooden sculpture occupies the exhibition space. It stretches to meet the limits of the space like a biology specimen pinned down for examination. Lutecia specifically explores the nature, character and emotional charge of the exhibition space: intended as a space of physical, spatial and intellectual enquiry. The accepted orthodoxy and conventions of the gallery as a place are brought under scrutiny and compared to a brief erotic encounter.

The questions are: Is this someone else’s symptom? Is it my symptom? What can I do t/here? Is it a space for valorising the self-contained, self-focused ego? These inward looking and introspective questions struggle to find answers outside the act of doing and recycling into other/future works. The work directly relates to my earlier pieces namely a.i.b, Frac de la Pays Loire, 2006 and in/out CRAC Sete 2002. However this piece adopts the idea of an absent body that forms the structure of the work and in doing so takes a direction towards the metaphysical –a kind of crucifixion that brings to mind the Grünewald alter piece or the work of Gina Pane. Lutecia contributes to the politics of personal space, body and the gallery.

This exhibition also included six screen prints framed in interchangeable, fluorescent coloured acrylic plastic cases.