“Absolut” is a brand new sequence of works via which Berger presents antithetical inventive positions to her commonplace observe the place pure white, symbolising the institutional, is contrasted with lived-in hues and shades of white, proposing the color as each materials and discourse.
This work consists of three formal absolute gestures—readymade, unreadymade and object. A divergent act via which Berger highlights her auto-didactic method to the inventive observe as steady studying and an absolute dedication to a reflexive precept of critique, by inverting her come-to-be aesthetics with the obverse look—which is in any case a synonym for reflection—inside her inventive language.
The three works maintain inside them a duality, legible each as sculpture and idea which stems from Berger’s personal heutagogical understanding and exploration of artwork and idea making use of her “unschooled” eye to the method as an entire.
Thus we’re left with statements in addition to questions? We encounter immediacy and ranges of legibility past its acute aesthetic. While she doesn’t draw back from the opportunity of an viewers studying of the works as; shelf, couch and books, Berger intends, by way of displaying these current banalities, to indicate the work as a sculptural syllabus for her all the time ongoing research.
The readymade-cum-monolith stands with its again to the entrance, negating the viewer’s first impression and divulges itself to be solely when rounding its nook.
The mentioned is as a lot because the unsaid.
There is no such thing as a supposed entrance and there’s no supposed again, there may be solely the supposed presence of an astute, absolute discovered object, each an archetype and an anomaly. The unreadymade velvet lined sq. floorpiece abstracts its reworked materials goal, turning into as an alternative a body opposing normalized circumstances of show the place Berger performs along with her theme of sans motif.
An absence turns into a sq. central poem, since that which it frames is in any case that which isn’t on present.
The dimensions-specific podest, constructed from materials which references what we frequently discover in Berger’s observe, melanin, holds a quantity of literary tomes the place gaps throughout the grid present themselves as a transparent presence via their clear absence, the discursive specificity of the aesthetic circumstance of the time through which we work, the setting inside which we work and the voice we’re afforded as a instrument.
Within the backroom which is the entrance room, in an unintended however flirted with Asherambience a triptych ought to have hung, made for the precise expertise of coming into via the gallery backroom, through which historically works are stored hidden from most people and proven solely to collectors and different v.i.p’s.
This work was imagined to be proven to all and matched with a performative gesture of the gallerist opening the work at customer’s request. White gloves would have been adorned to the touch the real velvet lined triptych and would have been what is inside, open, seen but additionally what it is outdoors, closed and hidden, a field. A Schrödinger’s cat form of thought experiment might be entertained when the motif is faraway from the triptych.
As a result of except opened, inside it, contained, can be its ecclesiastical potential, albeit as an unknown iconographic promise, or aura, decided by the historical past of artwork’s proof that triptychs most frequently depicted a non secular motif or brimmed with spiritual allegories and symbolism. And for the reason that unknown typically has extra potential for have an effect on than the identified, our Schrödinger’s cat box-cum-cupboard allegory may suggest that the closed triptych means god is useless, and/or alive inside it.
Nonetheless due to a difficulty with manufacturing, this work was by no means accomplished to the stardard it wanted to be and so it was disregarded the present however current as intention and proof that artworks don’t all the time prove, via circumstance, as you might need appreciated.
