Paul Elliman
18 Mar - 14 May 2017
Paul Elliman, Autumn/Winter 2016/17, 2017
Billboards across the city (Diesterwegstraße/ Zeiss-Großplanetarium)
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Frank Sperling
Billboards across the city (Diesterwegstraße/ Zeiss-Großplanetarium)
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Frank Sperling
PAUL ELLIMAN
As you said
18 March – 14 May 2017
British artist Paul Elliman (born 1961 in London, GB) has consistently engaged with the production and performance of language as a material component of the socially constructed environment. In a world where objects and people are equally subject to the force fields of mass production, Elliman explores the range of human expression as kind of typography.
His exhibition As you said includes various works, both existing and new, that test the boundaries of our communication through letter-like objects, language-like vocal sounds, actions, and movements of the body. Whether concealed by clothing or techniques of mimicry, our gestures and the desire for language are always within easy reach of the violently communicative raw material of the city itself. As you said is structured around a set of vitrines devised by Ian Wilson, which Elliman considers as sculptures, objects of display, and sites for discourse. Alongside these vitrines Elliman presents two new bodies of work, one produced in collaboration with the dancer Elena Giannotti.
As you said
18 March – 14 May 2017
British artist Paul Elliman (born 1961 in London, GB) has consistently engaged with the production and performance of language as a material component of the socially constructed environment. In a world where objects and people are equally subject to the force fields of mass production, Elliman explores the range of human expression as kind of typography.
His exhibition As you said includes various works, both existing and new, that test the boundaries of our communication through letter-like objects, language-like vocal sounds, actions, and movements of the body. Whether concealed by clothing or techniques of mimicry, our gestures and the desire for language are always within easy reach of the violently communicative raw material of the city itself. As you said is structured around a set of vitrines devised by Ian Wilson, which Elliman considers as sculptures, objects of display, and sites for discourse. Alongside these vitrines Elliman presents two new bodies of work, one produced in collaboration with the dancer Elena Giannotti.