"The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post)Modern Moment ".
20 July - 19 aug 2013, Gallery oed Cochin.
Curated by Kat Wyma.
The Material Point: Reconsidering the Medium in the (Post) Modern Moment hopes to open up a dialogue and encourage debate about the current state of “materiality” and its role in artistic production. The banal phrase “renew, reuse and recycle” cuts across all aspects of our lives; literally we recycle materials just as easily as we figuratively recycle ideas and styles. Yet, how does the tendency to “salvage” impact artistic practice? With this is mind, one of the operating assumptions of this exhibition is to pose questions about how (or if) the repurposing of materials, the reclamation of ideas, or the recuperation of cultural idioms is representative of a contemporary critical stance.
In bringing together a cutting edge quorum of diverse artists, who employ unique methods and approaches, this exhibition seeks to ask what is at stake in the embrace of atypical materials in creative expression. Without a doubt, the materials and the methods the artists employ speak a vernacular language; yet, by repurposing them, do they allow a fleeting glimpse of the post modern/post consumer world as it is?
