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Autumn Collection, Symptomatic Treatment: Jason Lindsay
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2005
for JASON LINDSAY’s exhibition at Special Gallery
Jason Lindsay’s work has tended to repeat itself— both internally, inside a series, and between series. Boxes shadow boxes, and echo other boxes: shelves, tables, slats, speakers, a bunker. -
QUICK
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2004
for the ‘Quick’ exhibition at Window and the George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
I’m particularly intrigued by work in which the communicative dimension is relayed with a degree of discretion: by which word I’m gesturing towards a quality of containedness, a sense of self-conscious restraint and subtlety, perhaps even humour. When ‘meaning’ is positioned at this kind of oblique angle to “subject“, there is space left for the un-prescribed.