RERUN: The Relation Between A Symbol And A Symptom
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 09/2007
Heaven Gallery, Chicago - 05/2008
"The symbol, ordinarily made to be understood, becomes symptom the moment it displaces itself and loses its primary identity, when its proliferation suffocates its signification"
Freud, 1916
A common tool of advertising, repetition is known to be effective and persuasive. The twelve artists presented here explore the point where repetition loses its convictive power and becomes decorative and pleasing as it does in the tradition of wallpaper.
Their works are created from pre-existing media derived imagery, taken and multiplied further. All are achieved through a printmaking process, traditionally associated with multiplication thus reinforcing the focus on repetition.
Heaven Gallery, Chicago - 05/2008
"The symbol, ordinarily made to be understood, becomes symptom the moment it displaces itself and loses its primary identity, when its proliferation suffocates its signification"
Freud, 1916
A common tool of advertising, repetition is known to be effective and persuasive. The twelve artists presented here explore the point where repetition loses its convictive power and becomes decorative and pleasing as it does in the tradition of wallpaper.
Their works are created from pre-existing media derived imagery, taken and multiplied further. All are achieved through a printmaking process, traditionally associated with multiplication thus reinforcing the focus on repetition.
