EDGE

GALERIE AL/MA 2013

Central to this recent work is the utilisation of PSE (Polystyrène Expansé) as a support.  I have endeavoured to exploit the unique material qualities of EPS to interrogate specific relations between edge, colour, surface and shape.

EPS is a common material used for a multitude of tasks.  I have found that this polyvalent character engenders it with a relatively neutral status, i.e. it has no singular utilisation. Lacking any inherit ‘nobility’, (cher à la tradition des beaux arts), and despite our familiarity with Polystyrene, its employment in the domain of painting confers it with a ‘foreignness’ that I value immensely. Sa pauvrété m’atirre.  The artistic process allow me to tranfrom this pauvrété into something else, something more elegant.

The breaking of each polystyrene panel is at once a destructive and a creative act.  In fracturing the panels, new edges and shapes are created beyond any rationalized control or foreseeable outcome. The resulting forms of each broken panel are then reassembled to create new relationships in the form of pairs. The ‘edges’ in these reassembled forms operate as frontiers – places of encounter where new dialogues between line, colour and shape are made possible. 

The assembled forms are then further developed through the utilisation and layering of colour. The employment of colour does not conform to any rationalised theory but is developed through a process of layering; where relationships are teased out and tested between the paired panels. Miles Hall