The cartoon figure here operates as pure sign in the Saussurean sense - a closed loop of readability that somehow short-circuits its own legibility. Forsythe's looping green contour calls to mind Keith Haring's subway chalk figures, though where Haring insisted on the crowd, this solitary waving form insists on isolation, its grinning face and splayed limbs suspended mid-stride in a white void that functions as both absence and invitation.
The cartoon figure here operates as pure sign in the Saussurean sense - a closed loop of readability that somehow short-circuits its own legibility. Forsythe's looping green contour calls to mind Keith Haring's subway chalk figures, though where Haring insisted on the crowd, this solitary waving form insists on isolation, its grinning face and splayed limbs suspended mid-stride in a white void that functions as both absence and invitation.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery