FRANCES STARK (EDITION II)
Structures that fit my openinG (...)
Frances Stark is probably as well known for her published writings, which fold cultural observation and textual analysis into the conventions of the personal essay, as she is for her visual art. Her drawings and collages are made up almost entirely of writing, usually short phrases quoted from literary or cultural sources and copied laboriously by hand in stacked, repeating lines of text.
Neither form of production is privileged over the other, and in both, Stark is broadly concerned with the arbitration of differences - in other words, with the art of compromise. Subtly weaving together a number of different ideas, contexts, and personal and literary references, she demonstrates how two or more seemingly contradictory or unrelated concepts actually inform one another to a startling degree.
For If I Can't Dance... Stark produced a new work, titled 'Structures that fit my opening and other parts considered in relation to their whole', which is based on a powerpoint program. In it she ask herself how she can combine different roles: as an artist, a mother, a teacher and a lover. She wonders how to work in a complex manner beyond the prescribed limits of each 'seperate' role.
Frances Stark is probably as well known for her published writings, which fold cultural observation and textual analysis into the conventions of the personal essay, as she is for her visual art. Her drawings and collages are made up almost entirely of writing, usually short phrases quoted from literary or cultural sources and copied laboriously by hand in stacked, repeating lines of text.
Neither form of production is privileged over the other, and in both, Stark is broadly concerned with the arbitration of differences - in other words, with the art of compromise. Subtly weaving together a number of different ideas, contexts, and personal and literary references, she demonstrates how two or more seemingly contradictory or unrelated concepts actually inform one another to a startling degree.
For If I Can't Dance... Stark produced a new work, titled 'Structures that fit my opening and other parts considered in relation to their whole', which is based on a powerpoint program. In it she ask herself how she can combine different roles: as an artist, a mother, a teacher and a lover. She wonders how to work in a complex manner beyond the prescribed limits of each 'seperate' role.
November 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007, De Appel arts centre
28 October, 2007 - 6 January, 2008, MuHKA
28 October, 2007 - 6 January, 2008, MuHKA
'Structures that fit my opening and other parts considered in relation to their whole', Frances Stark, 2007
