Louise Hopkins (b. 1965, UK)
First-comers, 2010

Well… I am not enhancing artistic value of the shopping catalogues with paint or aquarelle. But I’ve been engaging with second-hand books and markings in them; also considering some remaking of those. But what places Hopkins’ work on my list is her acting upon the affordance of the found object, reinterpreting it, seeing its potential to be something different. Being playful, making small gestures with unassuming materials. Exercising pattern recognition in the least likely of places. Rethinking the world and objects in it. There, I believe, we have more in common. And I feel quite inspired to see that this kind of work can be institutionally celebrated. Even if I have no clue how she talked herself into institutions.