2019 screenprint with ink and silver dust on Somerset Satin 300gsm 179 x 275mm unframed edition of 8
2019 screenprint with ink and silver dust on Somerset Satin 300gsm 179 x 275mm unframed edition of 8
2019 screenprint with ink and silver dust on Somerset Satin 300gsm 179 x 275mm unframed edition of 8
2019 screenprint with ink and silver dust on Somerset Satin 300gsm 179 x 275mm unframed edition of 8
Knock Knock
2019
Knock Knock is a series of tiny screeprints conceived as retrospective visual ripostes to “just jokes”. Monochromatic, structural and static, they are imbued with the struggle to articulate adequate responses. The images in these tiny screenprints aere mady by superimposing silhouettes of unrecognisable body parts of female public figures onto three-dimensional cubes. This process mirrors the translation from media to lived experience, emphasising a disconnect between (purported) intention and effect. The source images for these works depict: Helen Clark – former front-runner to be the next Head of the United Nations (2016), Head of the United Nations Development Program (2009-2017), Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008), and person with hair; Nicola Sturgeon – First Minister of Scotland (2014-ongoing), leader of the Scottish National Party (2014-2023), and person with legs (as observed in the 2017 Daily Mail article, “Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it”); Priscilla Finkenauer – home-baker (1966-ongoing) juicing a lemon to bake a Lemon Yoghurt Cake; and Eva Hesse’s Accession II – a lidless box made of aluminium mesh perforated by 29,000 holes and penetrated into its interior by thousands of tubes.