Breadcrumbs
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Sometimes you say the word over and over, and it stares back at you blank-faced and slack-jawed, you repeat the story for everyone and each time it’s told a bit different. You were writing some story about what we call being, and when it got to the end there was no time left to finish.
Breadcrumbs imagines the story not as chapters in a book but as lines in a poem; abstract, fragmented, referential to nothing and to everything. This exhibition proposes that the traces of yesterday remain long after you sweep them in your hand and sprinkle them into the dustbin.
Or, alternately, it proposes that the traces in your hand hold every story that could have been told; that there is the truth on one side (as enough people agreed) and on the other, everything else.
Working with these traces, of bodies, of myths, of everyday objects, the work transforms and expands the mystery at the heart of the mundane and the ghosts that accompany it. How in the Derridean conception of “Hauntology,” every (hi)story is a form made when all other possible stories are chipped away from it, in which haunting is not to appear but to make your absence felt. Furthermore, these works share a preoccupation with the threshold between visibility and invisibility. They speak to what the curtains reveal in their concealing and what the mask invites in its repelling.
What is it to be a ghost, if not a marginal figure; something seen and unseen, formless and material, here and elsewhere. In Breadcrumbs the works do not mourn for the absence nor the presence, but inhabit the position in between.
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