Group shows | Articulate

Opens on Jul 5 until Jul 27, 2025

4 pieces.
1. Chair drawing; composed of several books - cut into; about 60x60cmx10cm; framed and to be hung on the wall. About 5Kg
2. A small work of a book cut into; called Broken Angel; 40x30cm; framed - hung on the wall
3. A collage of book and cut out, printed paper; about 40 x40xm, unframed; for wall hanging;
4. A video piece called Stieglitz; will required a monitor.
The idea is to use books as central to the work or sometimes incidental.. it enjoys the oscillation between the words trying to mean something and the image trying to take over the meaning.

I see what I do as experimental philosophy.. and I use the methodology of art to inform the emerging questions. My approach centres around drawing and performance. I like the idea of multiple meanings inherent in our symbolic structures – interacting; mutating.. because it gives the possibility of novel emergent meaning that is beyond my capacity to come up with. I treat the symbols these as objects (sometimes they are even objects, like toasters and chaotic machines of my own making) and in a performative I want to see what these objects compel / invite us to do.

Steven Durbach

Stieglitz