Medjesi-Jones, A (2017) Factory Floor. ACME Studios, London, UK, 30 June - 15 July 2017.
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| Item Type: | Exhibition |
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| Creators: | Medjesi-Jones, A |
| Abstract: | Factory Floor is a site specific studio installation, generated through series of experiments and more established models of working that are, at the very base, motivated by painterly language and its potential. Factory Floor considers painting in a specific context of the studio environment. The methods of production, which are referenced in relation to textile industry, trace restrictive and repetitive body gestures. These performative tasks are used to mobilize our understanding of painterly object, as an active participant in viewer’s experience of the medium that equally acts as an obstacle and requires careful navigation of the studio parameters, not so dissimilar to the factory floor itself. Here, the paintings are treated as tools - mobile, utilitarian units, whose proposed function is to animate otherwise immobile tradition of the medium through feasible solutions that reference weaving looms or bobbing machines. The installation considers Modernist painterly tropes, and questions our understanding and functionality of painterly content and support. These devices are actualized through abstracted but also coded systems of painting, of which the grid is the best example. Through careful assembling of canvas parts and wooden supports, the tradition of weaving is referenced and used to re-position the grid motif. By unpicking the warp and the weft structure of the canvas, the grid is displaced from what is impressed and imposed onto its surface to not only reveal its structural support but also its essence. The interplay between the inner and the outer systems of painting is further activated by the explicit and deliberate employment of decorative, almost ritualistic motifs and devices, arrived at through laborious process of canvas unpicking. These devices form the essential part of the painterly labour, which fabricates the form before the surface is constructed. Aside from the formal painterly concerns, Factory Floor considers the history of de-industrialization and asks us to consider the relevance of manufacturing, including investment in new technologies and skills and, ultimately, new job opportunities. This is negotiated through painterly discourse. The origin of canvas is used symbolically and politically, as a fragile even contentious surface that journeys through histories - from cottage industry that predates industrial revolution through to postindustrial societies of today. |
| Official URL: | http://www.andreamedjesi-jones.com |
| Date: | June 2017 |
| Event Location: | ACME Studios, London, UK |
| Number of Pieces: | 10 |
| Medium: | acrylic, pigment, wood, canvas |
| Measurements/Duration: | varied |
| Keywords: | contemporary painting, abstraction |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > ND Painting |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2018 12:11 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:50 |
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