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.
ESSAY and PHOTOGRAPHS by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for the ‘QUICK’ exhibition at Window and George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Perhaps it is tiring to think of how fast we try to live? It seems normal for us to feel that we didn’t get what we planned done, because there’s too much to do.