at Mirror
10 Back
Hill,
Clerken well,
London
EC1R 5LQ
Curated by Esther
Windsor
22 April – 17 May 2002
‘It’s Only Words’ is an
exhibition of artists using art and text.
Words rent to be inadequate.
Love letters, lyrics,
artists statements, job applications, slogans, certificates, press releases, graffiti, pronouncements,
polemics, stories, diaries, names contracts, obituaries, police reports, tabloid
confessions, rumours, jokes and slips of the tongue.
Many monumental and
incidental moments of life are codified in speech and in the document.
We are committed to
speech and at the same time lost for words.
Art and text arouses
anxiety at the expectation for coherence and
representation within the
image.
Text as image can act as a defence, in doubling and
repetition of the same features or as an act of defilement, adulteration, corruption, counterfeiting or
debasement.
Artist: Terry Atkinson, BANK, Fiona Banner, Dave Beech, Cedric Christie, Adam Dant,
Richard Dyer, Simon English, Cerith Wyn Evans, Peter Harris, Inventory,
Elke Krystufek, Simon Martin, Liz Neal, Janette Paris, Douglas Park, Ben Pruskin,
Sophie Rickett, Georgio Sadotti, Bob and Roberta Smith, Johnny Spencer,
Georgina Starr, Jessica Voorsanger
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