3x2
Joanne Moar & Jim
Speers
Fiona Gunn & Frances Joseph
Phil Dadson & Mike
Stevenson
3x2 was a series of three exhibitions, each featuring two
artists, that ran at the Physics Room from February to June.
The artists were invited to present their work with the exhibition
space's context in mind, including its past uses and its wider surroundings.
One way of considering the work, then, is in relation to these things.
Fiona Gunn & Frances Joseph
were the two artists paired for the second of the three shows
in 3x2.
Fiona Gunn'sarcanum carries on from a piece in Sydney
in November 1996 titled thought feeling - dry words.
"But if I wait for understanding to accept things - the act of surrender
will never take place."
Clarice Lispector
The Stream of Life
About thought feeling - dry words:
"It is precisely the steady depth of this presentation, teased apart
from simple beginnings, which expands to fill the space. One is
held in the movement by which this animation is teased open. It
is determinedly present without demanding attention or expulsion.
"...I see a girl sitting on a chair, solitary. She seems to rise
and fall, defying gravity. Drawing the drawing, the girl in the
chair makes four copies at a time … with carbon in between.
Pressure flows into line, the lines recede under fading pressure,
lines sit in ambiguous space. Prepared washes of pure cobalt blue
pigment drift to the surface. She sees through her body. The chair
becomes the body. They separate. Now we enter the room. A light
image is projected at the wall, sliced by a wooden pillar. The image
holds steady and then it changes... the girl is restless in her
chair. Another image swings accross the wall, closing the gap momentarily,
then passing through. Decisively swinging around the room in a blue
mirror haze, the moving image duplicates repetitions on the divided
wall (made immediately) by regular twin meetings when the gap is
closed. But always passing through, illuminating the walls of the
enclosure, round and around. Rhythm of pages turning, and the heart...
"There is so little to it: a regular rhythm broken traversely
to catch the eye, but not be captured."
Liz Coates
March 1997
Reviews, Essays & Articles
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Spaced
2 CENTS 1 June 1997
Felicity Milburn
Fiona Gunn and Frances Joseph @ The Physics Room
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