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Lydia Gifford
10.11.2010 - 23.12.2010, opening 09.11.2010
Forth, 2010
MDF, canvas, oil paint, pencil, dust
185 x 284 x 2 cm (canvas: 72.5 x 51 x 2 cm)
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photo: Aurélien Mole
Tarr, 2010
MDF, canvas, oil paint, pigment
218 x 78 x 2 cm (canvas: 58 x 50 x 2 cm)
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photo: Aurélien Mole
Cast, 2010
MDF, canvas, pigment, beeswax, oil paint
176 x 75 x 2 cm (canvas: 56.5 x 54.5 x 2 cm)
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
Tie Tie, 2010
MDF, canvas, oil paint, graphite, grease, pencil
200 x 220 x 2 cm (toile: 79 x 52 x 2 cm)
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
Circle, 2010
video
6 min
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photo: Aurélien Mole
En français plus bas <> Lydia Gifford's practice verges on the intangible. Stemming from a constant negotiation between the exhibition space as a blank canvas and expression in paint, her work is not always graspable by the fleeting viewer. Time and attention are needed for the work to appear, for the eye to find the right focal length to perceive the composition. The discussion below is based around texts written by the artist in 2010, on the mode of stream of consciousness.
Marcelle Alix: It is funny as this question of intimacy within (or in relationship to) the work is recurrent in this first fragment of text.
You seem to ask a question: how to be there in a work, with the right amount of presence? I like the way [...]
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