Anna Leonowens Gallery,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1998
Neon sign, permenant marker
Superlovestarpower, featured a flashing
pink neon sign, shaped as a thought bubble, reading "Promise?"
every second. On the floor at the base of the gallery wall were
written 900 syllogisms which I had intentionally written in
one logically incorrect way or another. I intervened into the
logical structure with personal narrative, cliché items
from pop culture and quite often used the universal totalizing
subjective to make the logical model ring falsely.
In this exhibition I explored the destabilization
of meaning and the false pretexts of systems used to find absolute
truths. The neon sign constantly begged the question and asked
for something to hold on to in a most pathetic way. The use
of neon was an attempt to bridge the gulf between contemporary
art and public visual culture. Outside the gallery, on a heavily
populated street in Halifax's Historic Properties district,
people walking by could see the sign flashing out at them as
they did the infamous Halifax Pub Crawl.
Collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank |
