DAWN IS HER FAVOURITE HOUR
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DAWN IS HER FAVOURITE HOUR, 2016 (MUSEUM GLASS AND BLACK LACQUER BOX FRAME)
500 X 500 mm (700mm x 700mm FRAMED)
Oil and Swarovski crystals on C-type print, facemount glossy plexi / alu-dibond 2+3 mm.
Lady Jane Grey has become synonymous with a blindfolded victim through the painting by Paul Delaroche (“The Execution of Lady Jane Grey”, 1833) – never mind that she was an astonishingly precocious scholar.
“Dawn is her favourite hour” meditate on the violence of history and challenges of the subject in a modern era marked by rapid technological change, global war, environmental degradation, and cultured fragmentation. In the work by AD-Reflex, destruction and decay have given birth to a dilapidated beauty.
The opulent Neo-Baroque surface is a bizarre celebration of the uncertainties of the future, embracing the unknowable consequences of ‘process’, and simultaneously, how we engage with data, information and transform it into knowledge. AD-REFLEX constantly undermines familiar systems of classification and distorts differentiated meaning. The painterly elements on Diasec are an unexpected example of how the artists creatively archive within and without what we perceive to be a certainty. The viewer cannot always rely what constitutes fact or fiction, which is an outcome of toiling work in the studio and which was transformed and disrupted. The original ‘photographic traces’ bubbling underneath the surface of the Diasec was constantly altered with several photo-manipulation software techniques, the physical freezing of objects in ice (which are then re-photographed in a studio), painting and other means.
