 | Katie Daniels - Smiling Women, 2009 Katie Daniels - Smiling Women, 2009 |  | Chirs James - Study of a Chair No.1, 2009 Chirs James - Study of a Chair No.1, 2009 |  | Fatima Hijazi - The New, 2009 Fatima Hijazi - The New, 2009 |  | Katie Daniels – Defiance (part 2) Series 1-9, watercolour on pa... Katie Daniels – Defiance (part 2) Series 1-9, watercolour on paper |  | Fatima Hijazi – Hard Water, pewter & inc on cotton paper Fatima Hijazi – Hard Water, pewter & inc on cotton paper |  | Chris James – pen, marker & graphite studies on paper Chris James – pen, marker & graphite studies on paper |  | L-R: Fatima Hijazi, Katie Daniels and Chris James at the opening of &... L-R: Fatima Hijazi, Katie Daniels and Chris James at the opening of ‘informe’, Thursday 12 October 2009 |
informe
An exhibition of works on paper by
Fatima Hijazi, Katie Daniels and Chris James
9 – 27 March 2009
Long Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts
informe, or formless is an exhibition about perspective and visual form. Using watercolour, drawing and installation, Fatima Hijazi, Chris James and Katie Daniels present new works that explore the theme of formlessness. Through their individual practices, the three artists challenge conventions in perspective and visual form through issues of identity, space, cross-cultural encounters and gender stereotypes.
Artist Statements:
Katie Daniels
“My work acts as a personal response to how women are presented in conventional advertising imagery. By making work that subverts this imagery I aim to disturb the traditional relationship between the viewer and the image where the viewer has all the power over the image. It is my hope that the work will create new interactions between the viewer and the image, and provoke the viewer to question the conventional imagery.”
Chris James
“This series of illustrative studies has been developed in aim of challenging the formality of the everyday commodity. The objects are now dissembled, skewed and reconfigured in ways that lead to infinite new possibilities. So absurd and obsolete is their appearance, yet their true function remains hidden — removed from the conventional and the familiar.”
Fatima Hijazi
“This new series of work explores text, form and pattern through drawings and installation.
The text is treated as both pattern and language through Arabic text and repetition. The title of the works such as Common Blue, Cabbage or The New are abstract. They do not allow the viewer connect meaning, language and image - rather they act to repel association.
Michel Foucault discusses such ideas of visual representation in his 1968 text, This is not a Pipe. Here Foucault reflects on the work of Rene Magritte's "This is not a Pipe". Similarly, this work reflects on visual images, form and text.”
The exhibition was officially opened at a lunch time reception on Thursday 12 March 2009 with guest speaker, Mehmet Adil.
This exhibition is supported by the University of Wollongong’s, Diversity Week (23-27 March).
Long Gallery
Upstairs, Building 25
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
Gallery Opening Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday
Exhibition sales inquiries contact the faculty on: 02 4221 5853 or 4221 3996
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