POEM PAINTINGS
COLLAB-PAINTINGS // ON PAGES FROM THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
SOUS RATURE | UNDER ERASURE
Exhibition at Pierogi Gallery, New York November 2018—2019 // Digital Archive
Taking its title from Jacques Derrida’s concept of “under erasure,” the exhibition curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein includes both visual artists and contemporary writers whose work features different varieties of erasure. For Derrida (as for Heidegger before him) to put a word under erasure (sous rature) is to signal the inadequacy of inherited language while also recognizing its inevitability. Since Derrida introduced the concept of under erasure in his 1967 book Of Grammatology, this emphatically visual act of intervention has become an indispensable technique in diverse disciplines.
THE MIRACULOUS: HOUSTON
Part of CounterCurrent17, in coordination with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Foundation for the Arts, a public art installation across The University of Houston
The Miraculous: Houston is concerned with, among other things, the effects of displacement. At the heart of the project are two simultaneous displacements or migrations: 1. the movement of a book from private individual reading to public reading, and 2. the movement of contemporary art from spaces dedicated to its exhibition to public spaces in which there is no expectation of encountering an artwork nor even of referring to the subject of art. Designed to be highly noticeable against the subdued palette of the university’s buildings, with colors and fonts that refer to the original Paper Monument edition, this project departs from most previous architecture-text experiments in that it involves transposing the entire contents of an existing book and dispersing them across a wide area; it can be thought of as an “exploded book.”