Derrida had a word for the frame that is neither fully inside nor outside the work it borders - parergon - and this thick yellow ellipse plays that role almost too literally. It doesn't just contain the vertical figural stroke bisecting it; scattered interior marks, two curved dashes above, a broad chevron below, drift between reading as facial feature and reading as pure boundary-line, so the border and the bordered keep trading places.
Derrida had a word for the frame that is neither fully inside nor outside the work it borders - parergon - and this thick yellow ellipse plays that role almost too literally. It doesn't just contain the vertical figural stroke bisecting it; scattered interior marks, two curved dashes above, a broad chevron below, drift between reading as facial feature and reading as pure boundary-line, so the border and the bordered keep trading places.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery