Works 1996-2000
Beneath the Surface 1998,
Anne Faggionato and Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
"The final paradox remains of course,
that despite the length of time the artist has spent on
each work, and that almost every millimetre of many of
the works has been meticulously covered by the artist's
hand, the artist herself is completely absent. Either screened
from view by one of the layers of paper, or buried beneath
the surfaces of the skin canvases, no expressive marks
are visible. The erasure of the artist contributes to the
greater sense of the image's own reality, as though the
object is beginning to appear by itself, an imprint of
its own existence rather than something constructed. Bearing
traces of its former self, the object emerges like a stain,
neither wholly present nor fully absent, marks not just
of what has been but also, perhaps, of what is to come."
Simon Groom (taken from Parallel
Objects, 2000)
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