MAGALIE GUÉRIN – q p
2020-06-29Magalie Guérin writes:
‘Abstraction seems related to memory somehow; a felt memory as opposed to an image memory perhaps. […] How does abstraction relate to time?’ Answer: through repetition. These works ‘started as twins but ended as distant cousins. Still, same family’. She continues, elsewhere, as follows: ‘In my latest body of work, I’m doing something somewhat similar because I’m repeating marks across multiple canvases. I’ll be working on, let’s say, four paintings simultaneously and doing the exact same painterly mark on all of them.’ Auto-plagiarism, but with a difference. What should we call this? Names and titles are difficult – too abstract. To un-title (be un-titled, un-entitled) is to see ‘properly’, or rather to be seen in its own seeing. So what do we call this? ‘Commensalism’? ‘Chain-painting’? Why not ‘entanglement’ (too trendy?); ‘reciprocal determination’ (too retro?); ‘interpenetration’ (toxic?); or ‘inter-pictures’, ‘chiasmic pictures’, resonance, symbiosis, endosmosis…?
Opposite – Untitled (res 7.1), 2020
Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2020
Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London
