
Lewis Fidock and Joshua Petherick, Weevils in the Flour
11 Apr 2020
⬤ Gertrude Contemporary 8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020
⬤ Gertrude Contemporary 8 Feb - 22 Mar 2020
How to review a Contemporary Art installation? Just dive in. Sink or swim. No one will help you. The signs are never there. What the default position of CA produces—sometimes engineered as a passive-aggressive strategy, sometimes as a desperate avoidance of categorisation—is for the art to obfuscate. It’s a tack that hinges on well-worn rejections of clearly communicating to “the audience”. Fine if the artist has something complex to say, but for over two centuries visual artists have operated at the barely audible threshold of the murmuring intelligentsia.
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