(Proposal image)
Statement:
Humor, the absurd and banal, and intuitive ways of assembling objects are important parts of my studio practice. Within the academy we often look to hard, cold facts and in the process fail to acknowledge other forms of knowing, specifically those associated with intuition. (See “Yesterday Upon the Stair.”) Other ways of knowing, a piece proposed and executed for this exhibition, distorts formal collections of information both conceptually through images gathered from autobiographical, non-sequential events and technically through the use of ephemera. I invite the viewer to play an active part in making disparate connections between images where the deciphering of signs is left to individual experience.
additional information about the artist: www.sarahbethwoods.com
Peer Reviews
1
In investigating experiential knowing, Woods offers an invaluable contribution to the discussion at hand. The back-and-forth that her proposed piece plays with tactility and mediation, logical structures and non-linear forms, opens a space for consideration and feeling. This space is especially relevant in the way it tests the viewer’s ability to order and make meaning against the artist’s. As a “public” display of mundane autobiographical detail, it mimics the way we encounter and process information in all areas of life, turning external fact into subjective reality and vice versa. This proposal communicates the impossible nature of language and human exchange.
2
Zerox copies on a corkboard is an interesting beginning to something, but it is not really about taxonomy. Copies of images displayed on a static surface seems to be a discussion about display formats and the distancing of information from its source. All of these information concepts are interesting, but there are key differences between these concepts that the artist does not seem to address.
