HORIZONTAL HOLD 2017

aerosol on paper

1m x 1.5m

Horizontal Hold is an on-going series of aerosol drawings on paper. They embody the most basic act of mark-making by referencing the graffiti of tagging - an urban form of marking territory. Indulgence in this nostalgia is replicated through their presentation of the analogue opacity of electronic communication: white noise. Consequently, the immediacy of their expression is denied contemporary currency and becomes a futile rage in a language that is deliberately limited by its medium.

‘Horizontal Hold’ aerosol drawings suggest an end-of-broadcast black and white TV but they’re on the scale of the biggest new colour flat screens. The cinematic-sounding ‘End Credits’ impose tabloid newspaper styled headlines onto smoky backgrounds at tablet size: that is, phrases from the artist’s spam box are given mysterious prominence on top of online images of post-explosive smoke.

 - Paul Carey Kent, 2018, dalla Rosa exhibition.

End Credits and Horizontal Hold exhibition at dalla Rosa Gallery

Horizontal Hold drawings

aerosol on paper 2017