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  • March 18, 2018

‘Switch Supposing’ in an Urban Show, Art For All

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Switch Supposing is a script and a painted image in poster-size format.

London Loop Gallery, Multiple Locations: Shaftesbury Avenue, Hyde Park, Kings Cross, Euston Road, Finsbury Square, Great Western Street, Camden High Street, City Road, Southwark Bridge Road, Angel, Old Street, Shorditch High Street, Hackney Exchange.

There is something very powerful and empowering about showing one’s work on the streets; a place of physical connectivity and interconnectivity – exchanges, cross-roads and conduits. The external walls of the city are a public space, belonging to the people, to everyone at once and as such become its canvas. Passersby from all walks of life are the audience and in poster-size format, the artwork interacts with the civic architecture and its lines destinations, and who owns the landscape?

Art to the People!

Looking closely at the image of Switch Supposing, it is made up of text in the form of small syncretic poems like “sense, flow, make, things, whole” or the more simple “parent’s lips”. I created the poems first in automatic freedom before rearranging them into a new macro/micro design: an immortal higher view of the still now and the forever evolving uncertainty of every present moment.

Switch Supposing is both a writing and a drawing exercise in the form of a cosmographical design. Finely psycho-poetical invocations meander and converge in a sketch-like fashion of prayer for life’s everyday traumas. They explore the unity that exists in fragmentation and also the inherent reordering that exists between one’s inner experience and the outer reflection.

Switch Supposing works on the relationship that exists between the verbal and the visual. We can read images and paint visions with words, yet Writing and Drawing are fundamentally not the same, so how do they differ? What are they not? And where does their ‘Otherness’ intersect?

Words and images, with their signs and meanings, are equally necessary to space and charge reality. They are both vehicles and mediums to unite and conceive reality, working between the ‘I’ and the world, the interior and the exterior, the knowing and the doing. They allow an opportunity for us not to be subdued by the world, but to rather interact with it, thereby ever transforming it into new narratives.

Fantasia.

Art to the People!

#physicallychargetherevolution!

Switch Supposing is a piece that has adopted several forms, each time interacting with its living environment -from a ceramic tile-floor installation in Peckham Area10 to a pulsating light box in the Scuderie of Palazzo Moroni, Padova. It also became a Workshop ‘Languages as Images’ at the Warwick festival of Literature and Spoken Words.

 

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  • Art Save The Queen @ Oxo Gallery and Adlib Gallery Wimbledon
  • Languages as Images Workshop
  • Open Art Spaces 2021
  • Art in the Age of Now
  • Fresh Flowers and Hair
  • Dispensary Gallery
  • Unwrite
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  • Museum Spirituality IV
  • Museum Spirituality series III
  • Rivers of Change
  • Roses and Teeth
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  • 11.11. San Martino Day, Armistice Day
  • “Reveries, Soul’s Sounds, Memories, Action”
  • Sound, Water and Paint Recordings on Paper
  • Buone Vacanze! Restoring Narratives..
  • Post-truth & the Whatnot, My new studio for 2017
  • Daily Cosmologies, Automatic Writing
  • Lacrimae Rerum V
  • Painting on Water
  • Mould Making and Slip Casting of a Diesel Jerry Can
  • Innovations In Ceramic Art, Cambridge
  • Realms and Bridges @ Cowgill, Dentdale
  • Ceramic Openstudio @ Sally Larke Coach House
  • Studio in Venezia, Malamocco
  • In Lagos, researching Politics of Hair and Identity
  • A Collaboration in ceramic with artist Wendy Campbell-Briggs
  • Studio @ Cowgill, Dentdale, Yorkshire
  • Studio 16, Warwick
  • Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa
  • EC Studio, Shepherd’s Bush Market, London
  • Studio @ Iron Yard, Warwick
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