Participating Artists
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Word Play, 2002, paper and silicon, 30 x 51 x 6 cm, courtesy of the Mey Eden Collection and Lushy & Peter, Art & Projects, Tel Aviv
Jonathan Callan
By engaging in a labor-intensive and detailed process that involves perforation, etching, peeling, cutting and reassembling, Jonathan Callan strategically transforms written materials - texts, maps and especially books. In Lacuna, carved paper is transformed into a relief-like support; in Word Play, silicon hairs sprout up upon the pages of an open book in a manner that echoes the pictured waterfall; Cut Mountain No. 2, meanwhile, consists of a shredded photograph of a mountain. The books thus become materials whose physical presence undermines their abstract intellectual character. These interventions preclude the possibility of reading, and transform language into a tactile experience.
Born in Manchester, England, 1961; lives and works in London
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