The Daisy Argument (Revised)
2011/2012
Cut paper, acrylic paint, gouache and pencil
Dimensions vary
Installation commissioned by The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC as part of the exhibition Paperless, curated by Steven Matijcio.
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Press Release:
The medium of paper is a fragile vehicle – carrying the weight of written thought, but acutely vulnerable to travel, climate, and time. This endangered status accelerates in an increasingly digitized and environmentally conscious society, where the “paperless economy” is turning said material into simultaneous antiquity and the abject. Yet even as paper struggles against its purportedly imminent extinction, artists around the world are paying homage to its precarious empire. Paperless celebrates these refugees of the information age, gathering 15 international artists who create theatrical elegies to the pariah of so-called “progress.”
Exhibiting artists: Natasha Bowdoin, Peter Callesen, Doug Coupland, Simryn Gill, Katie Holten, Kiel Johnson, Maskull Lasserre, Nava Lubelski, Oscar Santillan, Karen Sargsayn,
Jude Tallichet, Yuken Teruya, Oscar Tuazon
Johannes VanDerBeek, and Xu Bing
Image 1 of 7
Press Release:
The medium of paper is a fragile vehicle – carrying the weight of written thought, but acutely vulnerable to travel, climate, and time. This endangered status accelerates in an increasingly digitized and environmentally conscious society, where the “paperless economy” is turning said material into simultaneous antiquity and the abject. Yet even as paper struggles against its purportedly imminent extinction, artists around the world are paying homage to its precarious empire. Paperless celebrates these refugees of the information age, gathering 15 international artists who create theatrical elegies to the pariah of so-called “progress.”
Exhibiting artists: Natasha Bowdoin, Peter Callesen, Doug Coupland, Simryn Gill, Katie Holten, Kiel Johnson, Maskull Lasserre, Nava Lubelski, Oscar Santillan, Karen Sargsayn,
Jude Tallichet, Yuken Teruya, Oscar Tuazon
Johannes VanDerBeek, and Xu Bing
All artwork and images copyright Natasha Bowdoin