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Kate Steciw
The Waterbearer, 2023
101.6 x 127cm
Inkjet prints on canvas, collage on panel

Blackbird Rook presents

VALUE VALUE VALUE
15.02 - 21.03.24
Curated by Peter Lamb

Birgir Birgisson. Shane Bradford. Jim Cheatle. Peter Lamb. Gustav Metzger. Tahmina Negmat. Aidan O’Sullivan. Playpaint. Kate Steciw

‘Painting’s capacity to appear particularly saturated with a lifetime of its own author makes it an ideal candidate for value production’.
Isabelle Graw 

‘Value Value Value’ brings together 9 artists whose work shows a willingness to collapse and renew recognisable authorship - artists who work so continuously on an artwork that often nothing recognisable of the artist’s hand remains - artists who lose themselves so completely in the activity that they become more synonymous with the chosen tool in the labour of making, than the final artwork itself.

In ‘Value Value Value’, Steciw, Bradford, and Lamb’s work repurposes itself, like regurgitating pistons. Birgisson’s paintings slowly evaporate whilst O’Sullivan and Negmat’s soiled works almost dissolve into the canvas. Metzger appears as a destroyer rather than a creator, and a similar disappearing act can be found in the work of Cheatle and Playpaint, where the human hand of labour fuses with the feedback loops of emerging technologies.

There is a contradiction in that it can become the way of working itself that is identifiable, and yet value can still be found in the work of artists who sidestep categorisation and employ an authentic perpetual reassessment of the painted mark 
and what that means.

https://www.artsy.net/show/blackbird-rook-value-value-value?sort=partner_show_position

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