Codex, Mixed Media 170 x 900 x 8 cm
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CodexCodex is an ongoing installation piece which engages with the idea of a journey. The piece is comprised of oil and watercolour paintings, drawings, collage, photographs, both original and found, maps and text offering advice and comment to potential travelers. Reference is made to the history of travel and its associations with colonialism and empire, the church / belief and contemporary tourism The viewer travels through the piece, which has no beginning or end as such. The composite pieces are arranged withina loose geographical framework, pinned or hung on a layer of maps, travel documents and pages of place names from the index of an atlas. From this starting point the work is built up by the juxtaposition of imagery that is pieced together in a fluid and playful way. Often comic, occasionally tragic, Codex attempts to portray the journey of mankind across and between continents and centuries as if it were a single journey. The piece looks at the psychological nature of the voyage, and at times disintegrates into an entirely internal space. Reference is made to history, but also to fear, anticipation and myth.
Codex was most recently shown at the Sheffield Institute for Arts, Sheffield, UK, in 'If you look like your passport photograph you're too ill to travel,' with Common Culture, Walker &Bromwich, and Uta Koegelsberger in May 2012.. Until 20 |
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