To deliquesce is to transition between solid and liquid states. This exhibition considers dissolution and loss of physicality, presenting five artists whose practices’ explore malleable states of image, body and material. Deliquesce looks at the space between a world of solid objects and bodies and a more diffuse and amorphous world of liquidity, fantasy and pixels, thereby considering how our understanding of the physical has been altered by the dominant influence of the virtual world we increasingly inhabit.
On the Internet images can spread quickly or sink to fathomless depths – adapting, changing and disintegrating in quality as they go, making their way back and forth between the virtual and physical realms. The works in this exhibition both affirm and deny the status of images as physical objects because the moment one considers immateriality, issues of physicality and corporeality inevitably reassert themselves.
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Deliquesce is curated by Emma Astner and Laura McLean-Ferris
with Nina Beier, Berry Patten, Pamela Rosenkranz, Oscar Tuazon, Emily Wardill
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at Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
until 29 July 2012
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Above – Nina Beier, The demonstrators (drowning coins), 2011
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Emily Wardill, Tonight I need a friend, 2012
Berry Patten, *D, 2012
Berry Patten, *D, 2012
Oscar Tuazon, installation view of Deliquesce, 2012
Nina Beier, installation view of Deliquesce, 2012
Nina Beier, The demonstrators (drowning coins), 2011
Emily Wardill, The Pips, 2011
Oscar Tuazon, Untitled , 2012
Pamela Rosenkranz, Because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work, 2012
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Courtesy of Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
