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Mediated Image, a body of work included in Correspondences: a group exhibition curated Silvie Aigner

This group exhibition was curated by Silvie Aigner and included artists Justin Gainan, Michael Helfman, Janus Hochgesand, Markus Hofer, and Medjesi-Jones. Medjesi-Jones exhibited a body of work entitled Mediate Image that included a series of drawings and paintings. The body of work is contextualized between a notion of language as a system of information and the material properties embedded within painterly processes and expression. It opens up a dialogue between the provisional nature of marks and gestures and a painterly ‘performality’ located within post-war practices of Abstract Expressionism. Practices by artists Christopher Wool and Emilio Vedova are used to inform the content of the work, underpinned by the postmodernist theories and writings of Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson and Giorgio Agamben. Medjesi-Jones produced a catalogue to accompany this body of work, which is available online as a downloadable visual resource from www.andreamedjesijones.com.

Medjesi-Jones’ exploration of the history and political signification of mediated painterly image was presented as a paper at the Tableaux: Painting -Photo - Object conference at the Tate Modern, London in October 2012 (keynote speakers included Philip Armstrong, Jean-François Chevrier, Michael Fried, Michael Newman) and at the Central St. Martins College of Art symposium The Tableaux Project in May 2011. The paper, Mediated Image, was published in the Journal of Visual Art Practice (March 2013, pps 101-108); and her presentation available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yJ1WXVk0&feature=youtube_gdata_player).