What Derrida's theory of the parergon insists upon is that the frame is never neutral - that the boundary separating work from surround is itself a productive site of meaning. DeLaCroix's nested concentric outlines enact this precisely: the outer cranial oval contains a second contour, which contains a third, each ring tightening inward toward a small facial deposit of strokes that refuses to stabilise into legible feature. The pocket on the shirt below operates as a secondary parergon - a frame within a frame, anchoring the bodily register with the same casual arbitrariness as the ears perched at either side of the head.
What Derrida's theory of the parergon insists upon is that the frame is never neutral - that the boundary separating work from surround is itself a productive site of meaning. DeLaCroix's nested concentric outlines enact this precisely: the outer cranial oval contains a second contour, which contains a third, each ring tightening inward toward a small facial deposit of strokes that refuses to stabilise into legible feature. The pocket on the shirt below operates as a secondary parergon - a frame within a frame, anchoring the bodily register with the same casual arbitrariness as the ears perched at either side of the head.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery