Speech Mesh
Artist:
Erika Vogt
Date:
2014
Materials:
Clothes hanger
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Installation vidéo
On a screen held up by a clothes rail, a network of language undulates in glowing red. In the video installation Speech Mesh, Erika Vogt orchestrates the encounter of elementary forms with the conventions of commercial presentation. She has combined the codified language of display devices with simple forms, common factors in creation throughout the ages. “This cosmic breathing that informs the fabric of creation is something everyone can witness. Observing the moon, the evolution of its crescent, observing the tides, the cycles of the seasons or of our lives”: this is how Jean de Loisy characterises the origin of these recurring forms that run through the history of art and human production (Simple Forms, exhibition catalogue, p. 20). In Erika Vogt’s work, there is a definite concern with capturing the lowest common denominator of culture “in the wild”. Through the density of meaning of her archetypal forms and their media, the artist also questions the efficiency and singularity of symbols at the intersection of the worlds of commerce and information.
Exhibitions
Speech Mesh-Draw OFF
Centre d’art contemporain Triangle France – Astérides, Marseille (France)
from 08 Mar to 18 May 2014
Centre d’art contemporain Triangle France – Astérides, Marseille (France)
from 08 Mar to 18 May 2014
Speech Mesh-Drawn OFF
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (Royaume-Uni)
from 14 Feb to 06 Apr 2014
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (Royaume-Uni)
from 14 Feb to 06 Apr 2014