Angela Bulloch (b. 1966, Canada)
Z Point, 2001

The modular screen loops abstracted famous scene from a movie.

It appeals to me on multiple levels (and there are also more affinities with some other of Bulloch’s projects), but let me focus on two of them here.

1: I like the abstraction, the degeneration of information and dissolution of identity. It is not so easy to motivate that quite intuitive appeal, but I think that reaction to what I perceive to be excessive focus on identity might be one factor, emerging opportunities for meaning generation opened by increasing ambiguity might be another and my idiosyncratic appreciation of beauty in simplicity would be the third. Among my works it relates to “Colour Photograph” where I am unfocusing the sense until only blurred colour fields remain distinguishable, “Great Conceptual Artist of Today” – blurred photographs of contemporary world leaders known for novel interpretations of old concepts, “Deproduction” – a work in progress entailing presentation of my acrylic painting only as its highly degraded digital reproduction.

2: There is something about the grid, geometry, colour values, workings of chance that appeals to me on the level of formal beauty but often leads to interesting patterns of thought… relates to some paintings and sound works where I am working with limited set of elements arranged in semi-random manner along various grids… the original score renders a rather unpredictable results that nevertheless is not meaningless since it offers itself to interpretation even if no particular “meaning” is deliberately coded in it.

[I also quite like that someone born in Canada and living in Germany can be a Young British Artist… all those categories that appear to be very specifically meaningful at the first sight, but gets more and more blurred at the closer inspection… and as the time goes by…]