Absolute negation stakes its claim here with the confidence of a Malevich who has gone further still, surrendering even the black square for pure, unbroken white. The submitted canvas - if one may call a void a canvas - situates itself within a long lineage of radical absence, from Klein's Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility to Cage's four minutes of structured silence. What remains is the viewer's own retinal noise.
Absolute negation stakes its claim here with the confidence of a Malevich who has gone further still, surrendering even the black square for pure, unbroken white. The submitted canvas - if one may call a void a canvas - situates itself within a long lineage of radical absence, from Klein's Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility to Cage's four minutes of structured silence. What remains is the viewer's own retinal noise.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery