Encore
An Exhibition took place at;
Ringling Underground, The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, September 2019
Saatchi Gallery, London, Sep 3- Oct 9 2020
Litla Gallery, Solo Show, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, April 2021
Ongoing performance piece resulting in over 50 current paintings
I think of the Lacanian term of the “Encore” to denote a more excessive kind of pleasure and constant need to transgress the limits imposed on enjoyment and to desire beyond the pleasure principle. My aim is to play. To engage the pleasure principle by experimenting with aspects of touch and intimacy. I explore space and the physicality of touch in performance by caressing and exploring space to create a landscape through nontraditional mark-making. I use oil pastels inbetween my fingers and toes or paint on my feet. As I do this I think of Georges Bataille’s writings on the big toe as he says it is the most human part of the body. “...with their feet in mud but their heads more or less in light, men obstinately imagine a tide that will permanently elevate them, never to return, into pure space. Human life entails, in fact, the rage of seeing oneself as a back and forth movement from refuse to the ideal, and from the ideal to refuse -- a rage that is easily directed against an organ as base as the foot.” (Georges Bataille: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939)
Installation view at Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2021
Performance on the street in Hafnarfjörður 2021
Performance at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida 2019
