Cause and Effect Series 1, 2 and 3

2016

  • Mixed Media
  • Paintings: Print, paint, craft paper, wood, and spray paint on paper with cut outs. Stencils: Spray paint on paper with cut outs, wood. Holes: Paper, spray paint, craft paper, wood.
  • Cause and effect series 1 – Paintings: 1575mm x 978mm wide x 20mm relief, Cause and effect series 2 – Stencils: 1505mm x 1055mm x 20mm relief. Cause and effect series 3 – Holes: 1115mm x 770mm x 20mm relief.
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Cause and Effect Series 1, 2 and 3 is made up of 16 individual works. Five paintings, five stencils and five holes and one print. The works contain five mantras that have been associated with the correlation between thinking, acting and its social consequences. These phrases are displayed in the work as belief systems that has through its asymmetry, (where one thing leads to another) has ultimately produced a form of perverse symmetry, where an idea seems to be always already equivalent to its outcome, resulting in a banal indeterminacy of both ideas and language. Some of these relations have been held dear to the art-world even when it has claimed to participate in the non-causal real. The works respond to this phenomenon quite directly, by literally deleting, obfuscating and crossing out the sign of correlation, the ‘equals’ sign that conjoins the idea to the outcome, behavior to action, and belief to consequence. The series adopts a mechanistic relation in the means of its own production containing the telos of cause as well as the tautology of circular production, where each work holds the conceit that is in service of another’s realization. These works continue a project that tests the questions of art’s facility for the real, and how notions of it can be thought with the political through rational means through the world of cause.

  • Installed as part of the exhibition Propositions for a Stage, 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven, 2017, Lasalle Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 29 July - 27th October 2017, curated by Bridget Crone. Photo: Weizhong Deng.

  • Installed as part of the exhibition Propositions for a Stage, 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven, 2017, Lasalle Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 29 July - 27th October 2017, curated by Bridget Crone. Photo: Weizhong Deng.

  • No Horizon does not equal Progressive Future (detail)

  • Capital does not explain Culture, 2016. Photo: Weizhong Deng.

  • Installed as part of the exhibition Propositions for a Stage, 24 Frames of a Beautiful Heaven, 2017, Lasalle Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 29 July - 27th October 2017, curated by Bridget Crone. Photo: Weizhong Deng.

  • Self Expression does not equal Self Liberation. Photo: Weizhong Deng.

  • Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation

  • No Horizon does not equal Progressive Future, 2016

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (detail).

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (detail).

  • Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (detail)

  • Self Expression does not equal Self Liberation (detail).

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution.

  • View left to right: Self Expression does not equal Self Liberation (Hole); CUT.

  • Self Expression does not equal Self Liberation (detail).

  • Installed view Cause and Effect Series, 2016 Left to Right: Self Expression does not equal Self Liberation (Stencil); Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (painting); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Hole); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation ( Painting).

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (detail).

  • Capital does not explain Culture, 2016 (detail)

  • Installed view Cause and Effect Series, 1, 2 and 3, 2016 Left to Right: No Horizon does not equal Progressive Future (Stencil); Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (painting); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Hole); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Painting).

  • Capital does not explain Culture, 2016.

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution.

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution.

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (Hole) Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (Painting)

  • Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution.

  • Installed view Cause and Effect Series, 2017 Left to Right: Capital does not explain Culture (Stencil); Self Abnegation does not equal Revolution (painting); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Hole); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Painting).

  • Installed view Cause and Effect Series, 2017 Left to Right: No Horizon does not equal Progressive Future (painting); Self Conception does not equal Self Transformation (Hole).

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