CHRISTOPHER HANLON

NOTES ON EXHIBITION

Looking for language, relinquishing control, ceding  authority, subjectivity in and of itself: in an artistic journey; the hardest part perhaps of making ‘good work’ is to have the knowledge of when the work is at the limit of controlling you. Of breaking the patterns that become contrived.

Many works fail along the way, either through practice or technique, worse, through language, and declare the final outcome as a result of some kind of cognitive reasoning, a result, a homework. A means to an end. A chore.

  

But work, is not a means to an end. It is the small sliver of life that searches for meaning (in its myriad of forms), where the sing song of curiosity, rhythmic, gusto, or shall we dare say, fun comes for an instance to find a form of visibility.

This exhibition, is a statement for this unknown. An attempt to be sincere in its calling, an embrace with a quotation as an expression of our own vulnerability.  

-Joseph Tang