On the Verge of Failure
Whether in form of concept, the works in this show challenge definitions of success. For some, like Lieber’s “Moss for Meditation” and Vanderkooy’s unravelled installation, ephemeral materiality positions the work in a precarious state. Lieber’s piece, neither dead nor alive, relies completely on human interventions or specific climates for its continued existence. Vanderkooy’s forms fluctuate between various stages of production, possessing a tension between potential and destruction.
Crude representations like Ridl’s edge and Walcott’s Nonetheless embrace a not-quite-thereness that blur distinctions between process and product. The works are united in their adolescent quality of being simultaneously self-aware and naive-- and the promise of of revelation that risk offers.
